Re: [Emerald] TNT terminate causes

Josh Hillman ( (no email) )
Thu, 1 Jun 2000 11:10:24 -0400

From: Emerald <emerald@nls.net>
> Ok so it's clear from the last several posts that the Ascent TNT Max
doesn't
> use the standard acctterminatecause and so my radius is not logging either
> the terminate cause or the connectinfo (I'm assuming that's different as
> well)
>
> Dale mentioned changing the acctterminatecause definition in radiusadmin.
Is
> there a way to fix this so it works with the TNT and continues to work
with
> my portmaster boxes (we still have dozens of those on our network)?
>
> I guess what I'm asking, is it possible to modify the trigger so it
responds
> to both, recording term and call info fields for both PM and TNT boxes?

You don't need to modify any triggers to get this to work.
Although you can make it so that radius attribute 195 has the name
"Acct-Terminate-Cause" (matching attribute 49), if you're using Ascend
equipment along with other equipment that uses attribute 49, you should not
mix them. The numeric data that's sent by the NAS for each are not the
same. In other words, a value of 11 for Acct-Terminate-Cause = "NAS Reboot
(The NAS ended the session in order to reboot non-administratively
("crash"))" but a value of 11 for Ascend-Disconnect-Cause is "DCD detected;
but went inactive" (loss of carrier).

We have several Ascend Maxes and also handle various other NASes remotely
(that use Acct-Terminate-Cause). Our calls table has columns for each.
When we run our "calls stats.sql" script, we have it automatically separate
disconnect causes so there's never any confusion. Here's an example of the
output from that script (for a single user):

End of session Down/Upload Duration NAS CallerID Disc
-------------------- ------------- -------- ----- ---------- ------------
Apr 30 2000 2:14PM 48000 / 0 0 :3 :50 AT&T 9545551212 User Request
Apr 30 2000 2:09PM 45333 / 0 0 :5 :28 AT&T 9545551212 User Request
Apr 30 2000 2:01PM 48000 / 0 0 :1 :54 AT&T 9545551212 User Request
Apr 28 2000 1:50AM 48000 / 26400 0 :12:20 Max 1 8505551212 45
Apr 27 2000 11:41PM 50667 / 24000 0 :11:17 Max 1 8505551212 45
Apr 27 2000 11:28PM 48000 / 26400 0 :13:45 Max 1 8505551212 45

Josh

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