Hello Marites -

The first thing to do is to reduce duplicates to a minimum. Then you 
can set the "DupInterval" parameter in your Client clauses to a value 
that will handle the problem.

hth

Hugh


At 11:44 +0800 01/2/21, Marites L. Quitoriano wrote:
>hi hugh!
>
>we just have one concern.  our company is offering prepaid cards.
>how can we prevent the Radiator not to automatically debit the
>ACCTSESSIONTIME from the TIMELEFT colum if we have
>duplicate stop records?
>
>  thanks,
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>From: Hugh Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Colin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) duplicate stop records
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>>
>>  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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