hostapd + freeRadius accounting

[Andreas Wetzel]

Jouni Malinen wrote:
> On Wed, Jul 04, 2007 at 08:06:13PM +0200, Andreas Wetzel wrote:
> 
>> I've installed hostapd and freeRadius on a FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE machine.
>> The NAS-Port attribute that hostapd sends in the RADIUS packets happens
>> to always contain a value of 0. Additionally the Acct-Session-Id attribute
>> always contains '00000000-00000000'. This happens with the hostapd 0.4.8 that
>> is included with the FreeBSD release, as well as with v0.5.8.
> 
> NAS-Port is set to the Association ID, if one is available. However, it
> is not available when using FreeBSD which takes care of IEEE 802.11
> association.

I guess the association ID would be sta->aid, right? The weird part is,
when I insert a printf that outputs sta->aid at the time of association,
I get the following:

1st station associates:

hostapd: ath0: STA 00:19:e0:83:b0:41 IEEE 802.11: associated (aid=1)

2nd station associates:

hostapd: ath0: STA 00:14:78:7d:51:2c IEEE 802.11: associated (aid=32001)

NAS-Port, which seems to use sta->aid though is always 0.
Which part am I missing?

 > If it would be important to get this stored (though, I
 > don't really see much value for it at the RADIUS server), this would
 > need an addition to FreeBSD net80211 to allow the association ID to be
 > read (or to make it automatically reported as part of association
 > event).

freeradius uses a combination of the NAS-IP-Address and the NAS-Port as
the key to store utmp style entries with the radutmp module. With NAS-Port
being always zero, each station that signs on, overwrites the entry of the
last station :-(

> Lack of proper Acct-Session-Id looks like a bug in the FreeBSD driver
> wrapper code. bsd_new_sta() function should call
> accounting_sta_get_id(hapd, sta) in the same way as driver_madwifi.c is
> doing in madwifi_new_sta().

I also tried passing an Acct-Session-Id in the Access-Accept message to
hostapd, but that is ignored by hostapd.

Andreas
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