Re: Issue with Guidelines document

[Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com>]

Greg Weber wrote:
>>  I would like to know what it *means* to have VSA's in an
>> Accounting-Response.  What does the NAS do with them?  Log them?  Ignore
>> them?  Change it's behavior?
> 
> This can be used to communicate server load or pending planned downtime
> information back to the NAS which then can be used in server selection
> algorithms.

  That sounds like a bit of a hack to me.  "Yes I've stored the
accounting data for bob, and by the way, I'm rebooting in 5 minutes".

>  I believe there's a commercial server in the PacketCable space
> doing this (for voice gateway RADIUS clients).  Also have heard some
> discussion about a server being able to dynamically adjust the interim
> accounting
> record interval by setting a VSA in the accounting response (mimicking a
> Diameter feature), but I'm not sure if that's implemented by any servers.

  I would suggest that CoA might be a better choice for that.

  Alan DeKok.

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