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, […]
Tags: Accounting, Cisco, Database, Freeradius, Mysql
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 […]
Tags: Accounting, Cisco, Database, Freeradius, linux, Mysql, radius
Oct
11
2006
Logging Radius accounting into Mysql database can fill up a lot of space. Some performance issues will arise at some stage as well, especially if traffic reporting scripts are to be added to the overall system. That’s why we added a new table to archive older Freeradius accounting records. Motivations We can of course delete […]
Tags: Accounting, Database, Freeradius, linux, Mysql, radius