On Wed, 4 Sep 1996, Dave Andersen wrote:
> Syslog is treated as "well, if it gets there, it gets there. If it
> doesn't, who cares."
>
> The RADIUS accounting files are treated as "if it doesn't get there, I'm
> GOING to get it there."
>
> You're likely to have some duplicate accounting entries in your RADIUS
> accounting files, but nearly all RADIUS events are going to be logged
> properly at least once. In fact, if the portmaster didn't crash or
> exceed its accounting backlog (unlikely in a calm network environment),
> it's almost certain.
>
> If you're using it for anything other than purely informational purposes,
> use RADIUS accounting.
>
> -Dave Andersen
>
> Lo and behold, Old Man once said:
> >
> >
> > Does anyone have any opinions on how accurate it would be too count user
> > online usage from the syslogd log files? How about the radius accounting
> > log files? Which is more accurate? Thanks.
Anecdotal evidence: when we used syslog accounting people were frequently
miss-billed. We aren't having that problem with radius accounting.
Steven P. Crain scrain@shore.net
Unix Administration and Programming
North Shore Access
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