Time for action – simulating proxied accounting
Do the following on the FreeRADIUS server for my-org.com
:
- Change the directory to where the files are that you will use for simulating accounting for
bob@your-org.com
on the FreeRADIUS server ofmy-org.com
. - Make sure FreeRADIUS runs in debug mode on the servers representing
my-org.com
andyour-org.com
. - Issue the following command on the
my-org.com
server:$> radclient 127.0.0.1 auto testing123 -f 4088_06_acct_start.txt
This is to simulate the start of a session.
- Issue the following command on the
my-org.com
server to end the previous session:$> radclient 127.0.0.1 auto testing123 -f 4088_06_acct_stop.txt
- Observe the debug output on both servers to see how the proxying of accounting requests happened by default.
What just happened?
We have simulated a typical accounting request that is proxied from one RADIUS server to the home server of another organization.
Flow of an accounting proxy request
The following diagram shows the difference...