> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- > Van: freeradius-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:freeradius-users- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Namens Alan > DeKok > Verzonden: maandag 27 februari 2006 23:17 > Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; FreeRadius users mailing list > Onderwerp: Re: type of lvalue in VALUE_PAIR > > "Seferovic Edvin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Okay - but I suppose I will have to patch my NAS ( Poptop server ) to > use > > Acct-Input-GigaWords and Output- instead of Octets. Still if I patch my > NAS > > to send GigaWords.. when I use sqlcounter to count the MBs I will still > not > > be able to compare the check-name which is written into uint32 variable. > > Shouldn't this be patched too ( I am not a professional programmer - so > > excuse my "silly" question ). > > Yes, but that doesn't have much to do with RADIUS attributes. > > If your NAS doesn't send the Gigawords attributes, then why are you > worried about people using more than 4G of traffic? Your NAS will > never tell the server that the user had more than 4G of traffic. > The nice thingy about this is that most nasses just wrap around 2GB (2^31, signed int instead of 2^32,unsigned int)
> > Poptop server accepts Session-Octets-Limit for the traffic limit ( > actually > > it is ppp that is doing the limiting ). So Ive added this attribute to > my > > dictionary. PPP also needs Octets-Direction so it can know which traffic > > flow to count. Ive added both attributes and it is working ( for 2^32 ). > > Ah, Ok. > > > Can you give me some directives how to implement this. Maybe to extend > the > > config of sqlcounter and value_pair struct? > > I don't see how that will help if your NAS doesn't send the Gigaword > attributes. > > If it does send them, then yes, you'll have to update the sqlcounter > module to handle 64-bit numbers. But you don't need to update any of > the valuepair structures. You could do it by using a multiplicator, say using kbytes/mbytes instead of bits/bytes. That will save you the 64-bit numbering within sqlcounter. SQL can handle this with the builtin calculation functions J. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
