Network Working Group C. Rigney Request for Comments: 2059 Livingston Category: Informational January 1997 RADIUS Accounting Status of this Memo This memo provides information for the Internet community. This memo does not specify an Internet standard of any kind. Distribution of this memo is unlimited. Abstract This document describes a protocol for carrying accounting information between a Network Access Server and a shared Accounting Server. Table of Contents 1. Introduction .......................................... 2 1.1 Specification of Requirements ................... 3 1.2 Terminology ..................................... 3 2. Operation ............................................. 3 3. Packet Format ......................................... 4 4. Packet Types .......................................... 6 4.1 Accounting-Request .............................. 7 4.2 Accounting-Response ............................. 8 5. Attributes ............................................ 9 5.1 Acct-Status-Type ................................ 11 5.2 Acct-Delay-Time ................................. 12 5.3 Acct-Input-Octets ............................... 13 5.4 Acct-Output-Octets .............................. 13 5.5 Acct-Session-Id ................................. 14 5.6 Acct-Authentic .................................. 15 5.7 Acct-Session-Time ............................... 16 5.8 Acct-Input-Packets .............................. 17 5.9 Acct-Output-Packets ............................. 17 5.10 Acct-Terminate-Cause ............................ 18 5.11 Acct-Multi-Session-Id ........................... 20 5.12 Acct-Link-Count ................................. 21 5.13 Table of Attributes ............................. 22 Security Considerations ...................................... 24 References ................................................... 24 Acknowledgements ............................................. 24 Chair's Address .............................................. 25 Author's Address ............................................. 25 Rigney Informational