(RADIATOR) duplicating accounting requests

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Jesse -

Yes it is very easy to do what you describe with Radiator.

The exact details will depend on what else you are doing in your 
configuration file, but you will need to use an AuthBy RADIUS clause to 
proxy the accounting requests to the billing server.

Something like this would work:

<Realm ....>
	AuthByPolicy ContinueAlways
	# proxy to billing server
	<AuthBy RADIUS>
		Host ....
		Secret ....
		AcctPort ....
		IgnoreAuthentication
		IgnoreAccountingResponse
	</AuthBy>
	# your normal AuthBy
	<AuthBy ....>
		.....
	</AuthBy>
	.....
</Realm>

This topic has been discussed previously on the mailing list:

	www.open.com.au/archives/radiator

BTW - the most recent version is Radiator 3.9 (plus some patches).

regards

Hugh
		


On 5 May 2004, at 04:45, Jesse Guardiani wrote:

> Howdy list,
>
> Please forgive me if this question shows me lack of understanding
> regarding the RADIUS protocol. If that is the case, then if someone
> could point me to a good website that explains the protocol I would
> appreciate it. RADIUS is still a bit of black magic to me, 
> unfortunately.
>
> We have just installed a new billing server. This server includes its
> own RADIUS daemon (merit) and requires that accounting packets
> be sent to this RADIUS daemon in order for hourly dialup accounts
> to be properly billed.
>
> However, currently, all of our accounting packets are being sent to
> Radiator server. Would it be possible to have Radiator forward those
> accounting packets to this new merit daemon (on a different machine)
> but still log the packets?
>
> Basically, we bought Radiator a long time ago, and we'd like to keep
> using it as our main RADIUS server, but we need accounting packets
> to be sent to the billing machine...
>
> Currently we've configured our terminal server to send packets to
> BOTH daemons. This is working, but it isn't a good long term solution.
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
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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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