[RADIATOR] Radiator User Traffic Accounting from Smart Switch

[Robert Fisher]

This doesn't seem like a question about Radiator or even RADIUS.   In 
order to gather
RADIUS accounting data from the switch -- radius accounting has to be 
supported in
the switch's firmware.   I don't know of any switch that supports this.

However, if all you're interested in is a count of octets-in versus 
octets-out on a port
by port basis, you're probably better off investigating a solution with 
SNMP or RMON
as both protocols are commonly available on managed switches and there 
are many
monitoring packages that can be used to not only check on the status of 
the switch
and the various ports but also to record the traffic data.


On 7/20/2012 10:49 AM, Jeff Kaminski wrote:
>
> We at Urban Networks have Radiator up and running on CentOS, as well 
> as the built in ServerHTTP.
>
> In particular, we are interested in traffic accounting for users on 
> Urban's network that do not need Radius authentication. We just need 
> to collect their traffic usage for billing.
>
> I am currently setting up the /etc/radiator/radius.cfg file and can 
> create users. What I now need to know is how to collect IP traffic 
> accounting information for a particular user that is on a particular 
> port on a smart switch. This Radius accounting information then needs 
> to be forwarded on to a Platypus 7 server that handles user account 
> billing.
>
> To summarize, The user is already attached to Urban's network and has 
> full Internet access. We just want to track their traffic usage. 
>  Something like the number of Megabytes in and out of the port on the 
> switch that they are on per hour - or something like that?
>
> So Radiator needs to map the user to the switch and port, and then 
> track port statistics.
>
> Jeff
>
>
>
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