Re: Empty username

James Sneeringer (jvs@ocslink.com)
Thu, 3 Jul 1997 13:12:14 -0500 (CDT)

Somewhat off-topic, but hey...

On Thu, 3 Jul 1997, Marwan W. Helou wrote:
| The following RADIUS Stop records contains 'User-Name = "" ' entry.
| This record comes from a CISCO 2511 access server. can sombody please
| explains why it does not write the user name in the field?? It's
| happening only with CISCO access servers and NOT with Livingston
| Portmasters

We have a 2509 that does it as well. IOS doesn't appear to get RADIUS
quite right, for whatever reasons (especially 11.1(5)). Luckily I only
have one of those hellspawn boxes; the rest are PM2e's :)

| Thu Jul 3 13:39:32 1997
| User-Name = ""
| Acct-Status-Type = Stop
| Acct-Session-Id = "00000001"
|
| Thu Jul 3 13:39:33 1997
| User-Name = ""
| Acct-Status-Type = Start
| Acct-Session-Id = "00000001"

Note the time difference, only one second. The user probably was
disconnected before authentication, but IOS sent an accounting record
anyway. It is a bit odd that you have a Stop before a Start for the same
Acct-Session-Id, though.

When I compile my usage reports from detail files, I just discard records
with invalid data such as this.

-James

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