> On Wed, 6 May 1998, NOT a LE employee wrote:
>
> > > How many people would like to see a field in the radius detail counting up
> > > the total idle time for that connection. Seems like it would be really
> > > useful to those of us who are giving unlimited accounts and such. Any
> > > takers?
> >
> > Hmm, you mean the total of all time that the account was idle? Would that
> > be possible? I think that the idle time is only held by the one counter
> > on the PM and it potentially could report this number if the person was >
>
> No, just the total time that use was idle during that particular
> connection. Put it with the STOP accounting records in the detail. The
> trouble is, there's no way to compute this now on our own. If you get the
> value via SNMP, let's say, every minute, then you can't sum the value you
> get at 10:01 with the value you got at 10:00. What you'd have to do is
> loop until your script sees it get set back to 0, and then begin all over
> again. This is still very kludgy considering the smallest possible time
> value for a cron job is a minute.
>
> So anyway, a user connects, the ComOS keeps track of their total idle time
> for that connection internally and then spits it out to the radius server
Ah... that makes sense... so a total count for time online and a total
count for time idle while online...
> when the connection is ended. I'm essentially asking for a grand total of
> 48 (at most) new integers in the ComOS.
actually 49 with console port... ;)
and 61 on the 2E models...
-- Aloha from Paradise,Sherwood
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