Re: ppp RADIUS accounting bug

From: Boris Kovalenko <boris_at_ntmk.ru>
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2003 13:18:11 +0500
Hello!

    Standard PPP does not support UPDATE packets, and of course (as my 
RADIUS knowledge) the counters should not be resetted, because RADIUS 
updates the same record.

Regards,
    Boris

Michael Bretterklieber wrote:

>Hi,
>
>On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Boris Kovalenko wrote:
>  
>
>>Hello!
>>
>>    Yes, unsigned, so we have 4G limit, which may simple be overflowed
>>by (for example) PPPoE connection. Yes, RADIUS standard defines new
>>attributes for big words, but current PPP does not supports it (it, so
>>our knowledge about RFC is useless :) Again, rad_put_int defined
>>u_int32_t parameter, so if a have dowloaded 4.5G (for example) what
>>number will send to radius?
>>
>>    
>>
>How about sending periodic RADIUS accounting updates?
>
>After each accounting update the counters could be reset, but I'm not sure
>whether this is RFC compliant, i.e. whether allways the complete value has
>to be send or whether the counters could be reset, after each update.
>
>For Mpd we implemented it without resetting the counters, but maybe that's
>not 100% right.
>
>bye,
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