On 11/7/2012 4:55 PM, Eliezer Croitoru wrote: > On 11/7/2012 1:37 PM, Azfar Hashmi wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I am using Squid 2.7 Stable9 (Debian Squeeze package) and i am using >> squid_radius_auth helper to perform authentication from radius >> (Freeradius 2.x) and this is working fine. Now the problem is that I >> want to do accounting in radius and for it I need squid to send >> accounting start / stop, interim updates etc to radius but it does not >> sending anything to radius except authentication requests. I want to >> confirm that is it even possible to do it with squid (log session time, >> bandwidth etc in radius)? is there any other radius plugin which can do >> it? or squid simply does not support these things? I can also try to >> hack squid_radius_auth helper code to add this functionality but first I >> need to confirm whether it will worth or squid simply do not support >> such things. >> >> I have also tried pam_auth helper with radius but it made no difference >> as well. >> >> Thanks in advance. > > Hey Azfar, > > As you may noticed this is auth helper and not related in any way to > accounting. > > Squid dosnt have any accounting mechanism else then in delay pools as > far as I can remember. > > This can be a nice feature. > > Radius accounting usually works on routing basis since it's based on > IP level. > I have been using a bit freebsd with MPD that can work with radius and > accounting. > > if you are using sort of LNS you should do it there and not in the > squid machine. > > Regards, > Eliezer > So there is no workground except manually parsing squid logs and feeding radius database? -- AzfarHashmi Cloudways Your Managed Cloud e: azfar.hashmi@xxxxxxxxxxxxx w: www.cloudways.com <http://www.cloudways.com> PGP keyid: 0xF42034B0F915D729 http://keyserver.pgp.com
