On Thu, Jun 03, 2004 at 08:46:46PM +0530, Manjunath M Prabhu wrote: > 1.i want to know the difference between the accouting on and off attributes > in comparison with the accounting start and stop attributes?? > i do the following > a) I use the radiusclient and acct-status-type=1 and start accounting the > update of which i see in the radacct table. > b) Now if i use acct-status-type=7 which is accounting on...the stop time > is seen in the updated radacct table. > c) the result is the same if i use the ' 1 and 2', ' 1 and 8(off)' ,' 1 and > 7 ' combinations......
That's right. Accounting-On and Accounting-Off packets are for when the NAS reboots, or otherwise clears the decks. It informs FreeRADIUS that it has rebooted, and FreeRADIUS 'stops' all that NAS's users which dialled in before the reboot time. As it happens, both on and off call the accounting_on_off_query in your configuration. -- Paul "TBBle" Hampson, on an alternate email client. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
