Service Provider Accounting Messages - Bay Networks Baystream 7 Configuration And Troubleshooting Manual

Configuring and Troubleshooting Bay Dial VPN Services

Service Provider Accounting Messages

In general, the NAS logs sessions based on user connections just as it does for
normal session logging, but with the addition of tunnel information. Tunnel setup
exchanges that carry their own authentication information (administrative account
names and passwords) and/or that are not bound to dial-in ports generate separate
accounting messages. To distinguish these log messages from chargeable user
sessions, these messages carry Service-Type of Tunnel and
Accounting-Status-Type of Tunnel start and stop designators.
Table 6-1
server.
Table 6-1.
Message Type/Field Name
User Start Message
Acct-Status-Type
NAS-IP-Address, Port,
Port-Type
Username
Calling-Station_ID
Called-Station-ID
Service-Type
Tunnel-Type
Tunnel-Media-Type
Acct-Client-Endpoint
Tunnel-Server-Endpoint
Acct-Tunnel-Connection-ID
6-6
summarizes the messages that the NAS sends to the provider's RADIUS
Service Provider Accounting Messages
Contents
Start
Connection origination of call
The original contents of the user field
Either or both, if applicable
As user authorized
DVS or L2TP
(for Dial VPN, only DVS is valid)
IP
A string containing the IP address of the accounting client
system, and possibly other system-specific identifiers
A string containing the IP address of the tunnel server,
the circuit type, and an optional identifier.
A unique identifier generated on each end of the session
to identify this particular user tunnel session. Typically,
this is a numeric string encoding a tunnel identifier and/or
sequence number.
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