RE: (ASCEND) Accounting program??

[Tim Basher <basher@alpha.CES.CWRU.Edu>]

Peter Barton writes:
> Can anyone tell me if there is a more accurate way to account 
> for users online than the old faithfull radacct.  My network is 
> rather large with quit a bit of traffic and UDP packets (start/stop 
> messages) are getting lost.  I need to know if there is another way 
> to more accurately account, either with radius or a third party 
> accouting software package.

Your request doesn't make much sense to me.  RADIUS accounting is accurate.
Although RADIUS uses UDP, and UDP packets can be lost, the NAS, (e.g., MAX)
will continue to resend the Accounting-Request message, until it has received
an Accounting-Response message.  So, whether the Accounting-Request message
is lost or the Accounting-Response message is lost (because they are UDP)
is immaterial.  The NAS will continue to send the Accounting-Request until
it knows it has been recorded.

This does mean that if the Accounting-Response message is lost, you may end
up with multiple records, but the duplicates are fairly easily eliminated,
when creating a billing report.

Are you perhaps just looking for a billing program that is able to reduce
the [accurate] RADIUS accounting details files?
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