I'm just wondering if anybody has read or knows anything about the issue below.
Thanks, ====================================== Adrian Griffin Administrator RetNet Internet Services -------------------------------------- Phone: 07 5527 0436 PO Box 105 Fax: 07 5532 9172 Southport BC ====================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Adrian Griffin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:52 AM Subject: radwho & Acct-Status-Type = Alive > I am running freeradius 0.9.2 (have not yet updated to 0.9.3). > > I've read through the FAQ and I didn't find anything, I also found no > relevant info in the list archive for the last 6 months using 'alive' and > 'radwho' as search terms > (http://www.mail-archive.com/cgi-bin/htsearch?config=freeradius-users_lists_ > cistron_nl&restrict=&exclude=&words=alive+radwho). > > We run a server to authenticate DSL users. The requests come from an > upstream RADIUS server which is proxying. I'm not using mySQL, just > outputting to flat text. > > radwho shows many duplicate entries of the same DSL users being connected > even though those PPP connections have long since ceased. > > I can only presume that because freeradius is receiving requests with > Acct-Status-Type = Alive that it's creating new sessions in the radwtmp file > despite the fact that the Acct-Unique-Session-Id value is identical. > > The log itself is being imported and processed by the accounting software > correctly, so it isn't a matter of multiple connections being billed. But > it's almost as if the daemon is reading Alive = Start as opposed to a > Stop/Start. > > If anybody can shine some light on this it would be helpful. Here is an > example request (with "Alive"): > > Thu Jun 3 10:23:02 2004 > Acct-Session-Id = "00015EBB" > Tunnel-Server-Endpoint:0 = "\000203.194.30.xxx" > Tunnel-Client-Endpoint:0 = "\000172.31.142.xxx" > Tunnel-Assignment-Id:0 = "\0001" > Tunnel-Type:0 = L2TP > Acct-Tunnel-Connection = "\0001156979" > Tunnel-Client-Auth-Id:0 = "\000n2563728k-qwb1" > Tunnel-Server-Auth-Id:0 = "\000LNS02-WICK-BNE" > Framed-Protocol = PPP > Framed-IP-Address = 220.240.129.xxx > Ascend-Connect-Progress = LAN-Session-Up > Ascend-PreSession-Time = 2 > Ascend-Xmit-Rate = 256 > Ascend-Data-Rate = 256 > Acct-Session-Time = 6296 > Acct-Input-Octets = 302969 > Acct-Output-Octets = 1050017 > Ascend-Pre-Input-Octets = 0 > Ascend-Pre-Output-Octets = 119 > Acct-Input-Packets = 3136 > Acct-Output-Packets = 2959 > Ascend-Pre-Input-Packets = 0 > Ascend-Pre-Output-Packets = 6 > Acct-Authentic = RADIUS > Acct-Status-Type = Alive > NAS-Port = 1045 > Calling-Station-Id = "atm 10" > Called-Station-Id = "2:2.945#184566207##speed:UBR:256#pppoe > 00:09:f3:00:b4:e3#/" > Service-Type = Framed-User > NAS-IP-Address = 203.220.79.xxx > Ascend-Session-Svr-Key = "0AD7A15F" > Event-Timestamp = "Jun 3 2004" > NAS-Identifier = "LNS02-WICK-BNE.comindico.com.au" > Acct-Delay-Time = 0 > User-Name = "xxxxxxxxxx" > NAS-Port-Type = ADSL-DMT > Attr-103 = 0x40be7124 > Client-IP-Address = 203.132.224.xxx > Acct-Unique-Session-Id = "aa396f12969f1d9e" > Timestamp = 1086222182 > > > ====================================== > Adrian Griffin > Administrator > RetNet Internet Services > -------------------------------------- > Phone: 07 5527 0436 PO Box 105 > Fax: 07 5532 9172 Southport BC > ====================================== > > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html

