Secure system and method for providing a robust radius accounting server
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsAnnette Beaulieu, Fabrice Livigni, Gerard Marmigere
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Abstract
A method for providing robustness to the accounting function of user sessions established by at least one NAS in an IP network, the accounting function being performed on a RADIUS server storing an ID, IP address and secret code for each NAS and information identifying each established session. The method includes identifying for the RADIUS server, the agent as a RADIUS client of the RADIUS server, polling from the agent all the NAS identified in said RADIUS server and, if no answer is received from at least one NAS, sending from the agent a RADIUS stop accounting request to the RADIUS server for all the sessions established by each non-responding NAS.
Claims9
A method executed by an agent on a computing system, providing robustness to an accounting function of user sessions established by at least one NAS in an IP network, the accounting function being performed on a RADIUS server storing an ID, IP address and secret code for each of the at least one NAS and information identifying each established session, said method comprising the steps of:
- identifying for the RADIUS server, the agent as a RADIUS client of the RADIUS server,
- polling from the agent the at least one NAS and, if no answer is received from at least one non-responding NAS,
- sending from the agent a RADIUS stop accounting request to the RADIUS server for all sessions established by the at least one non-responding NAS.
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