Reboot record

Miquel van Smoorenburg (miquels@cistron.nl)
Mon, 10 Feb 1997 16:44:39 +0100

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According to the RADIUS specification, a RADIUS client (such as a portmaster)
can choose to send an accounting packet with Acct-Status-Type = Accounting-Off
when it reboots and Acct-Status-Type = Accounting-On as soon as it has rebooted.

It looks like the PM3 is doing something like this, but the packet type is
wrong. Is this a bug in the firmware, or has the standard changed?
(PM3 running ComOS 3.5c6).

Basically you can detect that this is Accounting-On / Accounting off by
the fact that there is no User-Name pair, but that seems a bit of a hack to me.

Example:

Mon Feb 10 12:59:04 1997
Acct-Session-Id = "00000000"
NAS-IP-Address = 194.235.77.12
Acct-Status-Type = Stop
Acct-Session-Time = 0
Acct-Delay-Time = 0

Mon Feb 10 12:59:23 1997
Acct-Session-Id = "00000000"
NAS-IP-Address = 194.235.77.12
Acct-Status-Type = Start
Acct-Delay-Time = 0

Mike.

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