Re: Issue with Guidelines document

["Greg Weber" <gdweber@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 2:39 AM, Alan DeKok <aland@deployingradius.com> wrote:
> 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 think this was used with the client's own accounting session id,
not a user's (bob's) session id.  In other words, when the client booted
or was configured for accounting, it sent an Accounting-Request with
Acct-Status-Type = Accounting-On and Acct-Session-Id = "I am foo client".
Then it sent periodic Accounting-Requests (Acct-Status-Type=Interim-Update)
using the same Acct-Session-Id.  The server could send responses to
these interims with the load or potentially planned downtime schedule info.

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