On Wed, Jul 04, 2001 at 02:52:50PM +0200, Russell Coker wrote: > How do customers connect to you? If they are using any decent > terminal server device then it should send accounting packets to the > RADIUS server that list the number of bytes and packets sent and > received. We have some dialup users, but not all of our clients authenticate against the RADIUS server. I don't think I'm at liberty to discuss too much about it at this point, partially out of embarrasment, partially out of NDA. Needless to say, the most practical way of monitoring useage is through the core router, a Linux potato box with a 2.4 kernel. Everything must pass through the core router, and therefore it is the only place we can guarantee that we'll account for each packet. The tree-based approach to packet matching has obvious advantages, but as I noted in a previous email, I don't place gleaning packet info in the same priority as I do throughput or true firewalling. Up to this point, I've very little experience with radius servers, but I'm interested in finding out about these accounting packets. Would it be worth our while to develop a Linux kernel/userspace equivalent? -- Chad Walstrom <chewie@wookimus.net> | a.k.a. ^chewie http://www.wookimus.net/ | s.k.a. gunnarr Key fingerprint = B4AB D627 9CBD 687E 7A31 1950 0CC7 0B18 206C 5AFD
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