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RADIUS Accounting
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Network Working Group C. Rigney
Request for Comments: 2059 Livingston
Category: Informational January 1997
RADIUS Accounting
Status of this Memo
This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo
does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of
this memo is unlimited.
Abstract
This document describes a protocol for carrying accounting
information between a Network Access Server and a shared Accounting
Server.
Table of Contents
1. Introduction .......................................... 2
1.1 Specification of Requirements ................... 3
1.2 Terminology ..................................... 3
2. Operation ............................................. 3
3. Packet Format ......................................... 4
4. Packet Types .......................................... 6
4.1 Accounting-Request .............................. 7
4.2 Accounting-Response ............................. 8
5. Attributes ............................................ 9
5.1 Acct-Status-Type ................................ 11
5.2 Acct-Delay-Time ................................. 12
5.3 Acct-Input-Octets ............................... 13
5.4 Acct-Output-Octets .............................. 13
5.5 Acct-Session-Id ................................. 14
5.6 Acct-Authentic .................................. 15
5.7 Acct-Session-Time ............................... 16
5.8 Acct-Input-Packets .............................. 17
5.9 Acct-Output-Packets ............................. 17
5.10 Acct-Terminate-Cause ............................ 18
5.11 Acct-Multi-Session-Id ........................... 20
5.12 Acct-Link-Count ................................. 21
5.13 Table of Attributes ............................. 22
Security Considerations ...................................... 24
References ................................................... 24
Acknowledgements ............................................. 24
Chair's Address .............................................. 25
Author's Address ............................................. 25
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