Thibaut VARÈNE 95a7b6d54d uspot: accounting: implement Accounting-On/Off
The RFC[1] says about Acct-Status-Type:

    It 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.

The RFC errata[2] further specifies that Accounting-On and
Accounting-Off messages apply to the whole NAS.

The RFC also mandates that[3]:

    Either NAS-IP-Address or NAS-Identifier MUST be present in a
    RADIUS Accounting-Request.  It SHOULD contain a NAS-Port or NAS-
    Port-Type attribute or both unless the service does not involve a
    port or the NAS does not distinguish among its ports.

And[4]:

    An Accounting-Request packet MUST have an Acct-Session-Id.
    The Acct-Session-Id SHOULD contain UTF-8 encoded 10646 characters.

Finally the freeRADIUS recommendations here[5] suggest that:

 1. Acct-Status-Type = Accounting-On should not be used to indicate
    sub-system reboot.
 2. IANA should allocate two new values for Acct-Status-Type:
    Subsystem-On, and Subsystem-Off. These values have meaning similar
    to Accounting-On and Accounting-Off, except that they apply to a
    subystem of the NAS.
 3. NASes should use these new values to indicate subsystem on/off.
 4. The Called-Station-Id attribute should contain values unique to each
    subsystem.
 5. The NAS should signal that the entire system has rebooted by using
    the existing Accounting-On and Accounting-Off values, with a value
    for Called-Station-Id that is global to the NAS, or to omit it
    entirely.

In order to reconcile all this, this commit implements Accounting-On and
Accounting-Off requests as follows:

- When accounting.uc is started, it loops through each uspot interface
  and keeps track of the acct_server seen for each interface. Then for
  each interface that do not use a previously seen server, it generates
  a unique session ID, and sends an Accounting-On request to the
  RADIUS server, using this session ID and the configured NAS-ID.
- When accounting.uc stops, it sends an Accounting-Off request for each
  uspot interface for which an Accounting-On message was previously sent,
  using the same global session ID.

If/when the Subsystem-On/Subsystem-Off values are implemented, this
commit can be revisited to simply lift the restriction on unique servers
and change the acct_type value accordingly.

Finally, it appears that while NAS-ID is provided in the request thus
making NAS-IP unnecessary, libradcli still includes this field in the
request. Likewise, it also insists on sending a NAS-Port attribute.

[1]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2866#section-5.1
[2]: https://www.rfc-editor.org/errata_search.php?rfc=2866
[3]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2866#section-4.1
[4]: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc2866#section-5.5
[5]: https://freeradius.org/rfc/acct_status_type_subsystem.html

Signed-off-by: Thibaut VARÈNE <hacks@slashdirt.org>
2023-06-05 13:19:19 +02:00
2022-01-31 07:01:31 +01:00
2023-06-01 08:58:14 +02:00
2021-05-04 13:51:23 +02:00
2023-04-10 14:25:48 +02:00
2022-10-19 17:04:14 -07:00

OpenWiFi AP NOS

OpenWrt-based access point network operating system (AP NOS) for TIP OpenWiFi. Read more at openwifi.tip.build.

Building

Setting up your build machine

Building requires a recent Linux installation. Older systems without Python 3.7 will have trouble. See this guide for details: https://openwrt.org/docs/guide-developer/toolchain/beginners-build-guide

Install build packages on Debian/Ubuntu (or see above guide for other systems):

sudo apt install build-essential libncurses5-dev gawk git libssl-dev gettext zlib1g-dev swig unzip time rsync python3 python3-setuptools python3-yaml

Doing a native build on Linux

Use ./build.sh <target>, or follow the manual steps below:

  1. Clone and set up the tree. This will create an openwrt/ directory.
./setup.py --setup    # for subsequent builds, use --rebase instead
  1. Select the profile and base package selection. This setup will install the feeds and packages and generate the .config file.
cd openwrt
./scripts/gen_config.py linksys_ea8300
  1. Build the tree (replace -j 8 with the number of cores to use).
make -j 8 V=s

Build output

The build results are located in the openwrt/bin/ directory:

Type Path
Firmware images openwrt/bin/targets/<target>/<subtarget>/
Kernel modules openwrt/bin/targets/<target>/<subtarget>/packages/
Package binaries openwrt/bin/packages/<platform>/<feed>/

Developer Notes

Branching model

  • main - Stable dev branch
  • next - Integration branch
  • staging-* - Feature/bug branches
  • release/v#.#.# - Release branches (major.minor.patch)

Repository structure

Build files:

  • Makefile - Calls Docker environment per target
  • dock-run.sh - Dockerized build environment
  • docker/Dockerfile - Dockerfile for build image
  • build.sh - Build script
  • setup.py - Clone and set up the tree
  • config.yml - Specifies OpenWrt version and patches to apply

Directories:

  • feeds/ - OpenWiFi feeds
  • patches/ - OpenWiFi patches applied during builds
  • profiles/ - Per-target kernel configs, packages, and feeds

uCentral packages

AP-NOS packages implementing the uCentral protocol include the following repositories (refer to the ucentral feed for a full list):

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