Thanks for your responce. > If your DSL box produces RADIUS accounting packets, then I don't see > why this would be necessary.
Most ISP billing packages are designed to bill stardard dialup, where there is a start and a stop. DSL ppp sessions stay up for ages, so a seesion might go for more than a month. Also, billing packages usually show pretty graphs of usage, based on starts and stops. Therefore, it would make billing really easy if for each 'Alive' recieved, a start and a stop was sent to the Billing system. It would appear as if each DSL customer connected and disconnected every ten minutes. Maybe you have an idea of an easier way? > Generating new packets is always problematic. I would suggest > avoiding it if you can. Why is generating new packets problematic? Surely proxying generates packets reliably? The billing system we use backeds to oracle, so I guess I could do inserts directly into that, however I thought the community would be better served by a module like I'm suggesting, that could input standard dail-up radius into any billing system. This would be better don't you think? > Why would it be necessary to create a new start/stop packet? > > > Any thoughts on whether it should be a seperate module or a > > modification to the proxy code? > > A module. Cool. It looks like I can just copy the rlm_detail module. > > Alan DeKok. > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See > http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html thanks, Dave Seddon --------------------------------------------------------------------- Would you like to receive faxes to your personal email address? You can with mBox. Visit http://www.mbox.com.au/fax - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
