(RADIATOR) billing data

[Cory Bicknell, Systems Engineer]

The problem was corrected by loading a different version of IOS on the Cisco
router. The figures reported to Radiator now appear to be correct. Thanks
for everyones responses and suggestions.

Cory.

-----Original Message-----
From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:hugh at open.com.au]
Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 4:46 PM
To: Cory Bicknell, Systems Engineer
Cc: radiator at open.com.au
Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) billing data



Hello Cory -

Radiator simply transcribes what is reported in the radius accounting 
request by the NAS (check a trace 4 debug to verify)

It may simply be that the Cisco is counting *all* of the octets 
traversing the interface including TCP headers, IP headers and PPP 
headers, etc., etc. In other words all of the overhead as well as the 
payload.

You should check with Cisco to ascertain exactly what the counters 
comprise. There could also be a bug of course.

regards

Hugh


On Tuesday, Sep 2, 2003, at 15:34 Australia/Melbourne, Cory Bicknell, 
Systems Engineer wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I am running Radiator 2.16.3 with a Cisco 2611 running IOS 12.1(5)T9 
> running
> as our NAS. I have been doing some billing tests and found that the
> accounting figure acct-output-octets appears to be nearly double the 
> amount
> in bytes of what I was expecting. Below is the STOP record received in 
> our
> radius logs:
>
>         Acct-Status-Type = Stop
>         Acct-Input-Octets = 1524178
>         Acct-Output-Octets = 155369608
>         Acct-Input-Packets = 29704
>         Acct-Output-Packets = 103634
>         Acct-Session-Time = 2395
>         Acct-Delay-Time = 0
>
> On my test user I downloaded approx 74MB but the radius logs suggest I 
> have
> downloaded 148MB of data. The Acct-Input-Packets appears to be roughly
> correct.
>
> Has anyone else run into this problem or noticed a discrepancy in 
> values
> reported by radiator?
>
> Thanks
> Cory.
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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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