Tracking Dynamic IP assignments (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Fri, 27 Dec 1996 12:26:39 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Pete Kruckenberg shaped the electrons to say...
>My understanding is that there are essentially three ways to assign IP
>addresses to a Portmaster session (using RADIUS):
>
> - static based on user id
> - static based on port (an entry for each port in the users file)
> - dynamic based on configured Portmaster "pool"

With normal RADIUS there are 2:
Static by user
Dynamic from the PM pool.

There is no way to do static by port, that needs a hack.

>It appears that there is no way to track which dynamic address was
>assigned to which user/port. There doesn't appear to be anything in the
>RADIUS accounting record (at least, according to the IETF RADIUS
>Accounting Draft 5) that would record which dynamic IP address was
>assigned to the user/port.

Yes there is. The Acconting packets include Port number AND IP address.

-MZ

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