Date: 17 Aug 2001 09:01:53 +0930 From: Andrew Reid <andrew.reid@plug.cx> To: Paul Robinson <paul@akita.co.uk> Cc: Adrian Pavlykevych <pam@polynet.lviv.ua>, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RADIUS Accounting with SQUID Message-ID: <998004714.4120.67.camel@localhost> In-Reply-To: <20010816163108.A19902@jake.akitanet.co.uk> References: <997919908.1446.1202.camel@localhost> <20010815094331.B12922@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <997984620.1446.2253.camel@localhost> <20010816141325.C19104@jake.akitanet.co.uk> <20010816175859.E528@polynet.lviv.ua> <20010816163108.A19902@jake.akitanet.co.uk>
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On 16 Aug 2001 16:31:08 +0100, Paul Robinson wrote:
> I think the point I was trying to make seems to have skipped well over your
> head on this one - I know HTTP and Squid has no long sessions - that's my
> point. That's _why_ RADIUS is probably a bad choice for this. RADIUS stands
> for Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service and the name in itself tells
> you what it is best at handling - 'long' user sessions that last at least a
> few seconds, probably 30 or more (30seconds is a long time at this level).
> You are talking about transactions that last milliseconds. I would STRONGLY
> advise you read very carefully RFC2866 and maybe even preceeding RADIUS
> Accounting RFCs to make sure you really know what you're doing.
[ Crosses RADIUS off the list ]
Thanks for the explanation :-)
> There are other projects underway it would seem, as well, to actually handle
> what you're talking about in a far easier manner through log file parsing
> and the like.
That's how our current system works. The problem that I see is the fact
that currently, it re-reads the entire log file when the process
(squidhelper) is restarted. This causes the Internet to "die" (the cache
server doesn't respond during this time). I'm trying to work out a more
logical way of tackling this.
Possibly a rewrite is in order, but I'm not entirely sure yet.
- andrew
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