Re: DHCP and FreeRADIUS accounting

David ROUMANET wrote:
> Hello,
>
> in wireless network (EAP/TTLS), there is no way to use FreeRADIUS for
> dynamic IP affectation, so I use dhcpd. Unfortunely, I'm not able to
> have accounting with IP address ==> user.
> I will write a script to scan dhcpd log and RADIUS accounting log but
> before I would to be sure nobody has already done this... I don't want
> to re-invent the wheel ;)
>
> Could anybody help me ? thanks a lot,
> David
>
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> David ROUMANET Tel : 04 76 51 46 08
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>

dhcpd is the right tool for that job - I've never understood why people
think FreeRADIUS should hand out IPs.

What we do is have dhcpd syslog to a central syslog-ng server, which in
turn filters the incoming data and inserts those logs into a MySQL
server. FreeRADIUS can log accounting packets to MySQL as well.

Works well - although I personally would rather have FreeRADIUS use
'syslog' to log *everything* rather than have a build dependency for
MySQL in my FreeRADIUS builds.

We log authentication packets via syslog, and I pray to the 'FreeRADIUS
developer gods' that logging accounting via syslog may be added some day
(or at least personal time to find to the correct place in the source
code to add this myself). :)

--Craig

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