[Freeswitch-users] mod_radius_cdr questions and thoughts

Brian West brian at freeswitch.org
Fri Jan 23 02:03:07 PST 2009


Did you mean to send this twice?

/b

On Jan 22, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Apostolos Pantsiopoulos wrote:

> I am trying to implement a radius based solution
> using FS. I have seen that the mod_radius_cdr module
> is actively maintained. so I have a few questions/remarks :
>
> 1) When I place a call and my radius server is down, the
> call blocks forever instead of just radius_timeout * radius_retries
> seconds (I have declared only one server). I would expect that
> FS would stop trying to send an Acc Start packet after some
> time and get on with the call.
>
> 2) I have also noticed that FS sends only 1 packet (I waited for a  
> minute)
> instead of 3 (default in the config) since the first (and second)
> attempt failed.
> If my server was up (the port was responding) but it returned a req.  
> failed
> answer would the above time-out be valid?
>
> 3) When I tried to load the dictionary.freeswitch to my freeradius
> server, it complained :
>
> "Errors reading dictionary: dict_init:
> /usr/local/etc/raddb/dictionary.freeswitch[33]: dict_addattr:  
> Duplicate
> attribute name NAS-Port-Id"
>
> How can I overcome this?
>
> When I "instructed" my freeradius to only load the freesitch  
> dictionary
> I got this :
>
> "Errors reading dictionary: dict_init:
> /usr/local/etc/raddb/dictionary.freeswitch[257]: unknown option
> "Freeswitch""
>
> How can I use the dictionary with the freeradius? (or other radius  
> servers?)
>
> 4) The radius attributes included in the current requests are
> a) hard-coded, b) limited in number. I think many of us would like to
> use more attributes. Or even better define what to include (and what  
> to
> put in them) using a
> config file (the same maybe?)
>
> 5) Does the module send accounting packets only for the a-leg
> of a call or for both legs? (Maybe that could be configurable too).
>
> If anyone is interested in the above questions/remarks please post
> a reply. I would really like to know how many of the mailing list  
> users
> are also interested in FS radius support and your opinions on the  
> matter.
>
> Regards,
>
> -- 
> -------------------------------------------
> Apostolos Pantsiopoulos
> Kinetix Tele.com R & D
> email: regs at kinetix.gr
> -------------------------------------------
>
>
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