(RADIATOR) how to handle double accounting

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Utku -

You should check the return path for filters (or perhaps your Radiator 
host has two interfaces?).

And you should remove duplicates from the accounting data when doing 
the post-processing for billing.

regards

Hugh


>
> Hello,=20
>
> We have lots of double accounting coming from our NASes to Radiator. I 
> =
> know this is the normal procedure: NAS sends ACCT packet to radius. If 
> =
> NAS cannot get an ACK from radius it tries to resend the Accounting =
> packet only altering the "Acct-Delay-Time". I do not know the reason 
> why =
> this is happening to me a lot.
>
> When these ACCT packets gets to radius its written to acct database 
> two =
> or three times or even more. I have two questions:
>
> 1- can you image what may be the cause? I check: there is no packet 
> loss =
> or loss of connectivity between the radius and the nas.
>
> 2- how can you handle this when processing your accouting data. These =
> account data have only timestamp and acct-delay-time different... The =
> acctsessionid and the other fields are the same. When processing =
> accounting, you cannot simply eliminate all the stop records from the =
> acct database because different NASses (even a NAS) can send the same =
> accounting session id in time...=20
>
> any ideas?

NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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