[cisco-nas] radius accounting - problem with prepaid users

[Darryl Sladden]

Anatassios,

An account record can be sent when the system is restarted.
This record should be used to indicate that all "OPEN".
(ie STARTs with no stop RECORDS) should be closed for that 
NAS IP address.

This is successfully used at other SP.

Regards,
Darryl Sladden
VGDBU Product Manager
dsladden at cisco.com
Phone: 408-525-8970
Cell:  408-390-3781
Cisco Systems Inc. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: cisco-nas-bounces at puck.nether.net 
> [mailto:cisco-nas-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of 
> Anastassios Chatzithomaoglou
> Sent: Sunday, September 14, 2003 10:39 PM
> To: cisco-nas at puck.nether.net
> Subject: [cisco-nas] radius accounting - problem with prepaid users
> 
> 
> We have some users who use prepaid cards in order to connect 
> to our access servers.
> 
> This means that when they connect, a start record is stored 
> in our database and when they 
> disconnect, a stop record is stored. The time between these 2 
> records is subtructed from 
> the card's total time, so the next time the user connects, 
> the card starts with less time.
> 
> The problem is when the access server is powered off, so 
> there is no stop record sent.
> 
> One solution would be to send accounting updates every x 
> mins, but we don't want that for 
> all our dialup users. Is there a way we can configure it 
> per-user (through aaa)?
> 
> Any other idea on how we can solve such a problem?
> 
> 
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>     Chatzithomaoglou Anastasios
> Network Design & Operations Center
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