Thank you very much. This sounds like a perfect approach.
Hugh Irvine wrote:
>
> Hello David -
>
> On Fri, 08 Oct 1999, David Lloyd wrote:
> > We have three different types of NAS (Livingston, USR, and Ascend). I
> > would like to be able to log the connection rates in my custom radius
> > detail file in a consistant manner.
> >
> > While it is possible to get the connection rates from all three boxes,
> > they unfortunately each have a different attribute name and number for
> > where they put the darn thing.
> >
> > I see this as a good argument for being allowed to specify a different
> > dictionary for each NAS. I envision a scenario in which I could give the
> > attributes the same name, for instance:
> >
> > (In the usr dictionary file)
> > ATTRIBUTE Connect-Transmit-Rate 0x006A Integer
> >
> > (In the ascend dictionary file)
> > ATTRIBUTE Connect-Transmit-Rate 255 Integer
> >
> > (In the livingston dictionary file)
> > ATTRIBUTE Connect-Transmit-Rate 1007 Integer
> >
> > ...Then I could just specify %{Connect-Transmit-Rate} in my
> > AAcctLogFileFormat directive, and be guaranteed to get the right numbers!
> >
>
> The topic of per-client dictionaries has come up previously, but we are still
> considering whether or not to implement this as it complicates packet
> processing considerably.
>
> I have also just responded to Clement ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on a related issue.
> If you use AuthBy SQL (even just for accounting) you can have multiple
> definitions for the same column name:
>
> The simplest and easiest way to do this is with multiple definitions:
>
> AcctColumnDef transmit_speed,Annex-Transmit-Speed,integer
> AcctColumnDef transmit_speed,Acc-Connect-Tx-Speed,integer
> AcctColumnDef transmit_speed,Some-Other-Transmit-Speed,integer
>
> Only the attribute that is actually present in the packet will be written to
> the database, so different NAS-specific information will be written.
>
> This was a new feature in Radiator 2.14, although the manual does not describe
> the improved behaviour.
>
> >From http://www.open.com.au/radiator/history.html:
>
> In AuthBy SQL, you can now have multiple definition of the same column name in
> AcctColumnDef. This allows you to save different attributes from different
> types of NAS into the same column in a mixed NAS environment.
>
> hth
>
> Hugh
>
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