[Serusers] FW: radius accounting problem.

[Andres]

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>The thing is that I know many applications, like Cisco 5350, SNOM SIP
>SERVER ( www.snom.org ), that send the Acct-Session-Time to RADIUS. In
>fact, RADIUS (at least mine, IC-Radius) is ready for receiving such
>attribute. Why should not SER send this standar attribute?. If I want my
>RADIUS to estimate the Acct-Session-Time, I need to touch my RADIUS'
>code. And touching code means not a standar way of achieving accounting,
>because, I can modify my code, because it is open source (IC-Radius).
>But what would people do if they do not use IC-Radius or FreeRadius? I
>do not want to modify my code ( unless there is no other way of getting
>the session time).
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Radius was created for Dial-Up Access (Remote Authentication Dial-In 
User Service).  You should not expect all attributes to be fully 
functional in a VoIP application.  It was not designed for that.

>Regards,
>
>Lucas
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