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
accounting) and ppp supports it. Might as well use it ;)
From ppp(8):
Supports RADIUS (rfc 2138 & 2548) authentication. An extension to PAP
and CHAP, Remote Access Dial In User Service allows authentication infor-
mation to be stored in a central or distributed database along with vari-
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.
--
Mel
Problem with today's modular software: they start with the modules
and never get to the software part.
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