> Hi,
> Thank you for all previous answer a got from my question. I was able to
> understand my error and fix my programs.
> I have a new problem. Maybe someone can help me there!
>
> We are an Internet Service Provider in Montreal and some of our modem Banks
> are using Radius Authentication with Portmasters. We want to be able to
> charge users who use too many hours. We already have billing software that
> interprets our usage logs. For Example :
>
> Usage Log:
> Username StartDate StartTime StopDate StopTime LenghtOfCallInMinutes
>
> Example :
> bob 04/04/97 20:00:00 04/04/97 21:00:00 60
>
> I already wrote a C++ program that parses Radius logs and converts them
> into usage Logs. I verify the Acct-Delay-Time and adjust the
> 'Acct-Session-Time'.
> But, it won't work on this one! According to what I understand, this user
> got a usage time of -39 seconds. Hummm! I don't like that! I don't think
> that my billing software will like negative value... ;)
The Acct-Delay-Time can give you a rough approximate at best. On the
other hand, Acct-Session-Time will give you the precise amount of time the
person was on, without needing to adjust it.
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