Hello Colin -
At 10:53 +1100 01/2/13, Colin wrote:
>Hi
>
>We seems to have a problem with stop records being entered into the
>mysql database.
>This does not happen all the time but seems to vary, however on
>occasions we have duplicate stop records logged. The duplicate record
>may be exactly the same with the same time, same ip, same octets etc. Or
>they are slightly different, eg, one instance involves one, where the
>stop record for a user, has been duplicated 7 time but at different
>times. eg: 12:54:05, 12:53:51, 12:53:36, 12:53:21....................The
>total usage of this user came to about 796 hours!! This is impossible as
>there was only about 744 hours in the month.
>
>The start records seems fine with no duplicates, it only happens on
>occasions with the stop records, which is enough to give us incorrect
>data.
>
This sounds like a NAS bug. However, this is really an issue with
your post-processing, as the nature of the Radius protocol is such
that duplicates can and do occur. As such, your accounting processing
should really do duplicate removal before generating bills.
hth
Hugh
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