On Fri, Aug 27, 2004, Shannon Sariman wrote: >Hi All, > >Is there anyone (FreeRadius user) out there who has configured the BillMax >billing software (for radius accounting purposes) to work with FreeRadius? >I'm having difficulty trying to get radius accounting data into BillMax to >bill dialup user resource consumptions accordingly. My goal is to replicate >(?) FreeRadius accounting data to a BillMax server. > >I am using freeradius-0.9.3 with MySQL on a Linux RH 9.0 machine. > >My intended setup is something like: > >dialup host <====> Cisco NAS <====> FreeRadius Server <====> BillMax Server > >I wish to use the BillMax server for accounting purposes only.
It's been several years since I worked with BillMax. At that time BillMax was providing their service on their own machine, and uploading updated password files to our customer's server with a cron job which I then massaged into a form that worked with freeradius. I was supposed to integrate BillMax with another customer's systems early this year, but my customer decided BillMax was too expensive for him. I think time BillMax uses a MySQL database for their processing so it shouldn't be difficult to either process from the standard freeradius mysql data or to tweak the freeradius sql.conf file to update the BillMax directly. One issue you need to handle is the customer who's connection is nailed up so there aren't many accounting records for them. I've handled this with procedures run at the end of accounting periods that generate accounting stop and new start records for all open connections. Bill -- INTERNET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bill Campbell; Celestial Software LLC UUCP: camco!bill PO Box 820; 6641 E. Mercer Way FAX: (206) 232-9186 Mercer Island, WA 98040-0820; (206) 236-1676 URL: http://www.celestial.com/ It is practically impossible to teach good programming style to students that have had prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. -- Dijkstra - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
