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Date:      Wed, 19 Nov 2003 09:34:27 +0100 (=?ISO-8859-15?Q?Westeurop=E4ische_Normalzeit?=)
From:      Michael Bretterklieber <mbretter@a-quadrat.at>
To:        Boris Kovalenko <boris@ntmk.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: ppp RADIUS accounting bug
Message-ID:  <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311190932020.1928@BRUTUS>
In-Reply-To: <3FBB2743.8040508@ntmk.ru>
References:  <3FBAEAC1.7090709@tagnet.ru> <20031119071703.GA38863@pit.databus.com> <3FBB1DF3.1050706@ntmk.ru> <Pine.WNT.4.58.0311190851470.1928@BRUTUS> <3FBB2743.8040508@ntmk.ru>

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Hi Boris,

On Wed, 19 Nov 2003, Boris Kovalenko wrote:
> Hello!
>
>     Standard PPP does not support UPDATE packets, and of course (as my
but a patch could be written :-)

> RADIUS knowledge) the counters should not be resetted, because RADIUS
> updates the same record.
The RFC says:

5.4.  Acct-Output-Octets

blabla

can only be
      present in Accounting-Request records where the Acct-Status-Type
      is set to Stop.

It looks like, that these counters must not present in accounting updates.

bye,
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