>I'm using FreeRadius 2.1.3 on 2 Linux machines with accounting data stored in 
>both radacct file and MySQL database.  Recently we found that some 'aged' 
>records have AcctStopTime = NULL.    Seems Stop accounting packet for these 
>records are not received.  The problem is consistent in both cases - such Stop 
>packets didn't recorded in radacct file and MySQL database.     I've no idea 
>whether the stop packet sent to radius server was not recorded, or if  stop 
>packet was not sent from AP.   As we're using Aruba AP, I wonder if Stop 
>packet will be missed under particular situation, e.g. session timeout, 
>disconnect without proper logout, etc., or if I configured our radius servers 
>incorrectly so that some stop packets are not received or recorded.

No. UDP is not 100% reliable and packets get lost from time to time on a
busy network.

>Meanwhile, I'd also like to know if there is any solution to clean up such 
>orphan records if they can't be avoided.

checkrad.pl script cleans up stale sessions for Simultaneous-Use checks.
You can use it to do the same for every session. You have a list of NAS
types it works with in clients.conf.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP
>
>Would anyone please help?  Sorry for the newbie question.  Thanks a lot.
>
>Best Regards,
>/ST Wong
>
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