Re: How to request extra RADIUS Accounting-Attributes?

Dale E. Reed Jr. ( (no email) )
Tue, 08 Apr 1997 12:33:47 -0700

Kaiser wrote:
>
> HI,
>
> My NAS (USR TotalControl Enterprise Hub) does not by
> default send off the following accounting attributes when
> the session finished:
>
> (42) Acct-Input-Octets
> (43) Acct-Output-Octets
> (47) Acct-Input-Packets
> (48) Acct-Output-Packet
> (49) Acct-Terminate-Cause
>
> Is there a way to query the NAS to include these
> information in its Accounting-Request packets? Or
> it depends on which RADIUS attributes are supported
> by the particular NAS. I read through the RFC2059.TXT
> but it didn't mention anything on how-to. Please help...

Its dependant on which attributes your NAS sends. RADIUS does
not define a query/request from the RADIUS server to the RADIUS
client. You'll need to ask your NAS vendor about supporting those
attributes.

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