Broadband Subscriber Management

Thu Apr 23 15:33:19 UTC 2009

Could you have two instances of RADIUS, one for the middle-man and
ignore the accounting from that server?

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Leigh

Steve Bertrand wrote:
> Arie Vayner wrote:
>   
>> You need also to remember that in many cases the DSL link is not provided by
>> the actual ISP. In many cases this is a wholesale scenario which uses L2TP
>> to forward the PPP session from the telco/DSL provider to the ISP.
>> In many cases there would also be another L2TP hop to another
>> sub-ISP/customer.
>>     
>
> I have this exact setup (we are the sub-ISP). Sorry to sway this thread,
> but it seems like a good opportunity to ask about a problem I'm having.
>
> We went from a setup where the DSL provider's LNSs would auth/acct
> against our RADIUS server. This was working great for billing as
> previously discussed.
>
> Recently, there was another ISP inserted into the mix, between us and
> the DSL provider.
>
> The problem is that I now see RADIUS entries from both company's LNSs
> for each PPPoE login, which completely throws off the accounting numbers.
>
> Is there anyone here who can provide any insight as to whether this is
> normal, and/or how to fix it? We only do the authentication for our DSL
> subs.
>
> Essentially, I want to stop receiving the LNS connection info from the
> DSL provider itself, and only receive the ones coming from the
> intermediary ISP. I'm not particularly familiar with the specifics of an
> LNS configuration, but it would be great if I had some information that
> I could discuss with the provider in hopes to get this turned off (if
> possible):
>
> user            213:ISP  xx.xx.38.134     Thu Apr 23 07:37 - 07:41
> user            818:DSL                   Thu Apr 23 07:37 - 07:41
>
> Steve
>
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