May 30 2009
We have seen a few posts on Freeradius user list and other forums asking how to collect accounting periodically. The Radius protocol provides accounting but not in the way that many would like. Here’s a short list of things we would like to modify or improve: Traffic is not collected at regular intervalsAs a result, […]
Apr 27 2009
Having set up VPN parameters on two Cisco PIX, you need to generate a traffic flow from a network to another to bring the connection up. This can be annoying if want to make sure the tunnel is active before you connect the network. Let’s take 2 sub-networks 192.168.2.0/24 and 192.168.3.0/24.Once VPN connections are configured on […]
Aug 01 2007
Some people using Radius for accounting don’t know there are counters limits. Values defined in the protocol are stored in 32 bit fields meaning you will never go any higher than 4294967296 bits, that is fairly more than 4GB. If a session stays up for days, there are good chances that the counter resets to […]