Re: Accounting trail in a proxy setup

Maurice Makaay <[email protected]> wrote:

> This was one of the scenario's I had in mind. The reason for
> not logging the detail record is _for sure_ that the remote party does
> not return an Accounting-Accept packet.

Oops. But then, the terminal equipment does not receive it as
well. Is it OK? And (if it is configured as usual) it is
retrying to send the same accounting packet again... and again...

> not be accepted by our management ;-) An extra option in the realms file 
> could be useful for this:
> 
>     realm     1.2.3.4:1812    fwacct=1.2.3.4:1813

What exactly should fwacct flag do?
 
> In the meanwhile, I think I should do something like the following to
> solve our problem:
[..skipped diagram..]

Hmm, I guess I should have more information about your setup to
analize this. In particular, if what I said above about the
terminal equipment is true, you may end up having multiple
accounting records for each session...

Regards,
Sergey