[OpenSIPS-Users] radius SQL accounting of failed calls

[Jeff Pyle]

Hi Bogdan,

It is CDRTool/contrib/freeradius-brandinger/freeradius_20080103.patch within
the CDRTool tarball.


- Jeff



On 1/9/09 5:14 AM, "Bogdan-Andrei Iancu" <bogdan at voice-system.ro> wrote:

> Hi Jeff,
> 
> Could you point me the FREERADIUS patch you are talking about? just to
> take a look and maybe push the discussion to a developer from Free Radius.
> 
> Thanks and regards,
> Bogdan
> 
> Jeff Pyle wrote:
>> Hi Bogdan,
>> 
>> That makes sense to me.  In fact, that seemed to be the central point of the
>> argument against using a STOP record for a failed call:  "You can't STOP
>> what never STARTed in the first place."  Perhaps the argument from the other
>> side is that one must take a unique identifier into consideration?  I cannot
>> claim to understand the implications yet.  I started playing with radius
>> accounting only last week.  :)
>> 
>> Thankfully, the patch buried within the contrib directory of CDRTool applied
>> well against freeradius-server-2.1.3.  Failed calls from OpenSIPS now cause
>> SQL records to be inserted.  Inspecting the inserted records, however, I
>> don't see anything indicating whether it was a START, STOP, or FAILED at the
>> radius level.  Perhaps the only indicator is the session time?  I'm still
>> investigating.
>> 
>> 
>> - Jeff
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> On 12/15/08 6:36 AM, "Bogdan-Andrei Iancu" <bogdan at voice-system.ro> wrote:
>> 
>>   
>>> Hi Jeff,
>>> 
>>> OpenSIPS is still sending the FAILED values for the missed calls. From
>>> ACC point of view, you have two cases - A) established calls
>>> (START+STOP) and B) failed calls (FAILED).
>>> 
>>> If you use the STOP also for the failed calls, wouldn't be a confusion
>>> in between the STOP of an ongoing call and the STOP of a failed call?
>>> 
>>> Regards,
>>> Bogdan
>>> 
>>> Jeff Pyle wrote:
>>>     
>>>> Hello,
>>>> 
>>>> It seems there was a long thread some time back about using the
>>>> so-called non-standard ³Acct-Status-Type = Failed² in the radius
>>>> packet. The two proposed solutions seemed to be 1) use a Stop type
>>>> instead of Failed, or 2) patch Freeradius.
>>>> 
>>>> Since I¹m still seeing the Failed type in the radius detail file, it
>>>> appears OpenSIPS didn¹t change to Stop.
>>>> 
>>>> So, anyone know of a patch for current Freeradius sources?
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Thanks,
>>>> Jeff
>>>>       
>> 
>> 
>>   
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