May 30 2009
We have seen a few posts on Freeradius user list and other forums asking how to collect accounting periodically. The Radius protocol provides accounting but not in the way that many would like. Here’s a short list of things we would like to modify or improve:
Traffic is not collected at regular intervals
As a result, it [...]
Jul 22 2008
If you wonder if you should use rlm_ippool or rlm_sqlippool to turn your Radius into a "DHCP" server, read on!
rlm_ippool
We first configured Freeradius to provide IP addresses through the ippool module. IPs are stored internally in a binary data file.
radiusd.conf
ippool main_pool {
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Mar 17 2008
Radius servers generate a lot of accounting records. Is it worth keeping them? Damn yeah! Beside the fact they could be used to check if a customer was connected at a given date, or find out who got IP address X.X.X.X that same day, the most interesting is to generate traffic reports and show customers [...]