[cisco-bba] radius accounting

[Thomas Bridge]

On Thu, Oct 16, 2003 at 01:08:09PM -0400, Martin wrote:

> to followup on the july thread regarding radius accounting limitations (4GB),
> I read that acct-input-gigawords is supported in recent IOS. We are running
> 12.3(1a)B, which is the most recent/stable to run on 7204/NSE1. And I can't
> find anything about this attribute.
> Did anyone find a way to deal with accounting without disconnecting users?
> Intermediate records may help but are quite tricky to deal with accross
> billing periods.

I have a solution that I developed for our DSL users which is very basic -
it requires the use of five minute updates and assumes you're using
FreeRadius with mysql accounting.   I've not used it for billng but I
have used it for determining bandwidth hogs,

Thomas