Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 10:38:44 +0100 From: Mel <fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de> Subject: Re: Uptime logging with (maybe) ppp's log functionality Message-ID: <200812171038.44902.fbsd.questions@rachie.is-a-geek.net> In-Reply-To: <20081215150931.dbc8ea64.freebsd@edvax.de> References: <20081215150931.dbc8ea64.freebsd@edvax.de>
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On Monday 15 December 2008 15:09:31 Polytropon wrote: > Hi! > > I'm going to setup a system with a dial-up modem for sporadic > Internet access; a provider that charges per second online time > is used. Is there a way ppp (which is used for dialing) can log > the online time (or at least the connection's start and stop time) > so the costs can be calculated? > > Furthermore, are there already tools that, for example, would use > the daily, weekly or monthly periodic jobs to inform via mail about > how much online time was spent? Or, in addition, how much money > this would mean (built-in calculation)? If it doesn't already exist, > I'm sure I'll code it. :-) Radius was created for this (accounting and authentication based on=20 accounting) and ppp supports it. Might as well use it ;) =46rom ppp(8): Supports RADIUS (rfc 2138 & 2548) authentication. An extension to PAP and CHAP, Remote Access Dial In User Service allows authentication inf= or- mation to be stored in a central or distributed database along with va= ri- ous per-user framed connection characteristics. If libradius(3) is available at compile time, ppp will use it to make RADIUS requests when configured to do so. =2D-=20 Mel Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules and never get to the software part.
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