288 CHAPTER 11: USING AAA AND RADIUS COMMANDS
Description
Use the stop-accounting-buffer enable command to configure to save the
stopping accounting requests without response in the Switch buffer. Use the undo
stop-accounting-buffer enable command to cancel the function of saving the
stopping accounting requests without response in the Switch buffer.
By default, enable to save the stopping accounting requests in the buffer.
Because the stopping accounting request concerns the account balance and will
affect the amount of charge, which is very important for both the user and ISP,
NAS shall make its best effort to send the message to the RADIUS accounting
server. Accordingly, if the message from the Switch to the RADIUS accounting
server has not been responded to, the Switch shall save it in the local buffer and
retransmit it until the server responds or discard the messages after transmitting
for a specified number of times.
Related commands: reset stop-accounting-buffer, radius scheme, display
stop-accounting-buffer.
Example
To indicate that, for the server “3Com” in the RADIUS scheme, the Switch will
save the stopping accounting request packets in the buffer, enter the following:
<4500>system-view
System View: return to User View with Ctrl+Z.
[4500]radius scheme 3Com
[4500-radius-3Com]stop-accounting-buffer enable
timer Syntax
timer seconds
undo timer
View
RADIUS Scheme View
Parameter
seconds: RADIUS server response timeout timer, ranging from 1 to 10 and
measured in seconds. By default, the value is 3.
Description
Use the timer command to configure RADIUS server response timer. Use the undo
timer command to restore the default value of the timer.
After a RADIUS (authentication/authorization or accounting) request packet has
been transmitted for a period of time, if NAS has not received the response from
the RADIUS server, it has to retransmit the message to guarantee RADIUS service
for the user. The period taken is called RADIUS server response timeout time,
which is controlled by the RADIUS server response timeout timer in the Switch.
This command is used to set this timer.
Setting a suitable timer according to the network situation will enhance system
performance.