Re: [squid-users] Radius Accounting!

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?

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