RADIUS Account-On and Accounting-Off

RouterOS General
1

I’m told that Mikrotik don’t support the RADIUS Accounting-On and Accounting-Off status types, as described in RFC 2866 and friends:

Acct-Status-Type MAY be used by the client to mark the start of accounting (for
example, upon booting) by specifying Accounting-On and to mark the
end of accounting (for example, just before a scheduled reboot) by
specifying Accounting-Off.

Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your PoV) I haven’t been able to test this, as we’ve never had to reboot either of our Mtiks. So, if you already support this, just ignore me. Well, let me know you support it, then ignore me. :smiley:

If you don’t, then please can we have this feature? Obviously it is extremely important for maintaining accurate accounting records, as it enables RADIUS to mark the ‘stop time’ and close all currently open accounting records, free up any dynamic IP’s, etc.

– hugh

2

I think that following attribute is added at 3.0beta10.

3

Thanks for the response.

Unfortunately I don’t currently have a spare Mtik to test b3 on. Can anyone confirm if accounting ON/OFF is being sent in 3.0beta10?

This is kind of important, so I’d like to get a definitive answer.

[edit] Ah, I just found it in the changelog:

What’s new in 3.0beta10:
[blah blah]
*) added radius client to send Accounting-On packet on startup;
[blah]

So I guess that’s confirmed.

Thankyou.

– hugh