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    Testing freeradius2 with MAC Auth and accounting

    Scheduled Pinned Locked Moved 2.1 Snapshot Feedback and Problems - RETIRED
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    • N
      Nachtfalke
      last edited by

      Hello everybody,

      freeradius2 is not working at all with pfsense 2.1 at the moment. It probably installs and it probably will start but not all files do have the correct path they should have.

      There is a code in freeradius.inc which checks if the package is running on pfsense 2.0.x or pfsense 2.1

      // Check to find out on which system the package is running
if (exec("uname -r | cut -c 1-3") == '8.3') {
if (exec("uname -m") == "i386") {
define('RADDB', '/usr/pbi/freeradius-i386/etc/raddb');
define('USRLOCAL', '/usr/pbi/freeradius-i386');
}
else {
define('RADDB', '/usr/pbi/freeradius-amd64/etc/raddb');
define('USRLOCAL', '/usr/pbi/freeradius-amd64');
}
}
else {
define('RADDB', '/usr/local/etc/raddb');
define('USRLOCAL', '/usr/local');
}
// End of system check

      But for some reason - I am no coding expert - this constant does not get resolved:

      define('USRLOCAL', '/usr/local');

      That's why there some wrong paths in "radiusd.conf" and probably other files and commands.
      If someone can check/fix that we can check why accounting files are empty.

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      • A
        Alan87i
        last edited by

        The install I did this morning is working  sort of! Mac auth is working fine . But the accounting is not at all.

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        • jimpJ
          jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
          last edited by

          @Nachtfalke - try it this way:

          
if (substr(trim(file_get_contents("/etc/version")),0,3) == "2.1") {
	define('RADDB', '/usr/pbi/freeradius-' . php_uname("m") . '/etc/raddb');
	define('USRLOCAL', '/usr/pbi/freeradius-' . php_uname("m"));
} else {
	define('RADDB', '/usr/local/etc/raddb');
	define('USRLOCAL', '/usr/local');
}

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            Nachtfalke
            last edited by

            @jimp:

            @Nachtfalke - try it this way:

            
if (substr(trim(file_get_contents("/etc/version")),0,3) == "2.1") {
	define('RADDB', '/usr/pbi/freeradius-' . php_uname("m") . '/etc/raddb');
	define('USRLOCAL', '/usr/pbi/freeradius-' . php_uname("m"));
} else {
	define('RADDB', '/usr/local/etc/raddb');
	define('USRLOCAL', '/usr/local');
}

            Hi jimp,

            I tried this it is working but not everywhere..
            I found out something in the following function:

            function freeradius_modulesdatacounter_resync() {
	global $config;
	$conf = '';

	$conf .= <<<eod<br>exec datacounterdaily {
		wait = yes
		program = "/bin/sh " . RADDB . "/scripts/datacounter_acct.sh %{request:User-Name} daily %{request:Acct-Input-Octets} %{request:Acct-Output-Octets}"
	}
exec datacounterweekly {
		wait = yes
		program = "/bin/sh " . RADDB . "/scripts/datacounter_acct.sh %{request:User-Name} weekly %{request:Acct-Input-Octets} %{request:Acct-Output-Octets}"
	}
exec datacountermonthly {
		wait = yes
		program = "/bin/sh " . RADDB . "/scripts/datacounter_acct.sh %{request:User-Name} monthly %{request:Acct-Input-Octets} %{request:Acct-Output-Octets}"
	}
exec datacounterforever {
		wait = yes
		program = "/bin/sh " . RADDB . "/scripts/datacounter_acct.sh %{request:User-Name} forever %{request:Acct-Input-Octets} %{request:Acct-Output-Octets}"
	}	
EOD;

	$filename = RADDB . '/modules/datacounter_acct';
	conf_mount_rw();
	file_put_contents($filename, $conf);
	chmod($filename, 0640);
	conf_mount_ro();

}</eod<br>

            In the part between the following code the constant RADDB will not be resolved.

            
$conf .= <<<eod<br>....
EOD;</eod<br>

            But in the same function this part is working as it should:

            	$filename = RADDB . '/modules/datacounter_acct';
	conf_mount_rw();
	file_put_contents($filename, $conf);
	chmod($filename, 0640);
	conf_mount_ro();

            There are some other functions which have the same behaviour:
            freeradius_settings_resync() in line 199
            freeradius_modulesmotp_resync() in line 3949
            freeradius_modulesdatacounter_resync() in lines 3968, 3972, 3976, 3980

            Not sure if the defined constants can be accessed within every function or if it is another problem.

            I tried this all on pfsense 2.0.1 i386 and amd64. Will try on pfsense 2.1 later but it will be probably the same.

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            • jimpJ
              jimp Rebel Alliance Developer Netgate
              last edited by

              As I mentioned in another thread, you cannot use constants inside of "here doc" strings. That's why in the Quagga package I copied the constant to a normal variable at the start of the function that writes out the config.

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                Alan87i
                last edited by

                I wish I understood what you two were talking about LOL
                I would help if I could.
                All I can do is test any updates.
                Thanks for the hard work. !!

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                  Nachtfalke
                  last edited by

                  @Alan87i:

                  I wish I understood what you two were talking about LOL

                  I wish I would understand what jimp is talking about, too ;-)) hehe just kidding. I don't know much about php and coding but I now know what he told me :-)

                  @Alan87i:

                  I would help if I could.
                  All I can do is test any updates.
                  Thanks for the hard work. !!

                  Give the server some minutes to sync - then try a deinstall and new-install of the package.

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                    Alan87i
                    last edited by 

                    un 25 05:38:44 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 2 of 1024 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 05:39:45 	radiusd[5085]: rlm_radutmp: Logout for NAS pfsense port 2, but no Login record
Jun 25 05:39:45 	radiusd[5085]: rlm_radutmp: Logout for NAS pfsense port 2, but no Login record
Jun 25 05:39:46 	radiusd[5085]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 2 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 05:39:46 	radiusd[5085]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 2 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 05:39:46 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 10 of 1024 MB! The user was accepted!!!

                    Looks like it's counting
                    I hit the weather page and a couple links from the same site.

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                    • N
                      Nachtfalke
                      last edited by

                      Ok, then counting will work - but if its counting correctly - that is dependent on what CP is sending. Probably it doesn't do it the right way :-(

                      In

                      /var/log/radacct/datacounter/daily/

                      you will find the "used" and "Max-octets" files to every user.
                      You can do a:

                      tail -F used-octets

                      on this file and see how it is increasing when CP sends acct-input-octets and acct-output-octets to RADIUS.
                      Probably best way to open to SSH connections - on one start radiusd -X to see all radius output and on the other how the file is increasing.

                      There are some open tickets on redmine about the CP accounting bugs.

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                        Alan87i
                        last edited by

                        It for sure does not count correctly!!
                        a 200 MB download counted up over 1170MB in the octets used file.

                        This is a serious bug !

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                          Nachtfalke
                          last edited by

                          @Alan87i:

                          It for sure does not count correctly!!
                          a 200 MB download counted up over 1170MB in the octets used file.

                          This is a serious bug !

                          This is probably because CP does not reset the counter to zero after each update.
                          You will recognize that the counter will increase much faster when the download least longer.

                          So counting will probably be like that:
                          1 - 10MB
                          2 - 10MB + ( 10MB + new value1)
                          3 - 10MB + (10MB + new value1) + (10MB + new value1 + new value2)
                          and so on.

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                            Alan87i
                            last edited by

                            resetting the used octets file each time I tested too 0
                            and waiting for the Log to show user x has used 0 from xxx allowed
                            Downloading from thinkbroadband.com

                            5MB download counted 23MB
                            10MB download counted 49MB
                            20MB download counted 118MB
                            50MB download counted 286MB
                            100MB download counted 570MB

                            So yes it does seem to count faster the longer traffic is continuously counted. But only too a point.
                            Since radius needs to to have re auth every minute set I would think maybe CP needs to send accounting data every minute and reset?

                            5 x 4.6 = 23
                            10 x 4.9 =49
                            20 x 5.9 =118
                            50 x 5.72 = 286
                            100 x 5.7 = 570

                            Testing a 1.1 Gb file now off my own server.

                            this 1.1 gb DL ran at about 460 to 461 KB/sec

Jun 25 10:30:54 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 0 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 10:31:56 	radiusd[16481]: rlm_radutmp: Login entry for NAS pfsense port 52 wrong order
Jun 25 10:31:56 	radiusd[16481]: rlm_radutmp: Login entry for NAS pfsense port 52 wrong order
Jun 25 10:31:56 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 10:31:56 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 10:31:56 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 0 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 10:47:24 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 2419 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 10:48:26 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 10:48:26 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 10:48:26 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 2581 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 10:49:28 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 10:49:28 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 10:49:28 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 2743 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 10:50:30 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 10:50:30 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 10:50:30 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 2905 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
  This is roughly the 500MB mark

Jun 25 11:11:06 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 11:11:06 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 11:11:06 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 6144 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 11:12:08 	radiusd[16481]: rlm_radutmp: Login entry for NAS pfsense port 52 wrong order
Jun 25 11:12:08 	radiusd[16481]: rlm_radutmp: Login entry for NAS pfsense port 52 wrong order
Jun 25 11:12:08 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 11:12:08 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 11:12:08 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 6306 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 11:13:10 	radiusd[16481]: rlm_radutmp: Logout for NAS pfsense port 52, but no Login record
Jun 25 11:13:10 	radiusd[16481]: rlm_radutmp: Logout for NAS pfsense port 52, but no Login record
Jun 25 11:13:10 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 11:13:10 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 11:13:10 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 6468 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 25 11:14:11 	radiusd[16481]: rlm_radutmp: Login entry for NAS pfsense port 52 wrong order
Jun 25 11:14:11 	radiusd[16481]: rlm_radutmp: Login entry for NAS pfsense port 52 wrong order
Jun 25 11:14:11 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 11:14:11 	radiusd[16481]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 52 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 25 11:14:11 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 6474 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!

I trimmed a lot of lines out of the middle.
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                              Nachtfalke
                              last edited by

                              @Alan87i:

                              resetting the used octets file each time I tested too 0
                              and waiting for the Log to show user x has used 0 from xxx allowed
                              Downloading from thinkbroadband.com

                              5MB download counted 23MB
                              10MB download counted 49MB
                              20MB download counted 118MB
                              50MB download counted 286MB
                              100MB download counted 570MB

                              So yes it does seem to count faster the longer traffic is continuously counted. But only too a point.
                              Since radius needs to to have re auth every minute set I would think maybe CP needs to send accounting data every minute and reset?

                              5 x 4.6 = 23
                              10 x 4.9 =49
                              20 x 5.9 =118
                              50 x 5.72 = 286
                              100 x 5.7 = 570

                              Testing a 1.1 Gb file now off my own server.

                              Re-authenticate every minute is - in the opinion of the freeradius developer on the mailing list - too fast. Re-connection should be at least 10mins or more but the reconnection is not the problem. Reconnection is only for checking if the user can access again or not.

                              But you are absolutly right:
                              Default behaviour of a "correct" working NAS ist that there is only an accounting stop packet when a user disconnects (shutdown PC or something else). If the user reconnects (turning PC on) the accounting starts again and of course by zero.

                              But CP offers stop/start accounting which sends accounting stop packets every minutue (could be every 5minutes or any other value) but it does not reset the value.
                              So as you said: Reset the valu to zero would "fix" the problem.
                              http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2164

                              Ermals postet a fix here - perhaps you can try this if it is working.

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                                Alan87i
                                last edited by

                                I'll need someone to hold my hand while applying that patch . I ave not a clue where to begin.
                                Maybe it could be added in the next update??

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                                  Nachtfalke
                                  last edited by

                                  I am not sure - but jimp built a package "system patches" or something like that.
                                  Perhaps you can download the .diff file and import it into this "package". I had problems doing that by hand because of some "warnings" - I posted on this redmine ticket.

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                                    Alan87i
                                    last edited by

                                    Ok I applied the patch  and it seemed to count even faster?
                                    very strange so I took it off again

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                                      Nachtfalke
                                      last edited by

                                      did you use "Interim-update" or "stop/start" ?
                                      The patch is - as far as I know - for stop/start

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                                        Alan87i
                                        last edited by

                                        stop /start
                                        I don't think removing it worked correctly as it still seems to count even faster

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                                          Alan87i
                                          last edited by

                                          Re-authenticate every minute is - in the opinion of the freeradius developer on the mailing list - too fast. Re-connection should be at least 10mins or more but the reconnection is not the problem. Reconnection is only for checking if the user can access again or not.

                                          But you are absolutly right:
                                          Default behaviour of a "correct" working NAS ist that there is only an accounting stop packet when a user disconnects (shutdown PC or something else). If the user reconnects (turning PC on) the accounting starts again and of course by zero.

                                          But CP offers stop/start accounting which sends accounting stop packets every minutue (could be every 5minutes or any other value) but it does not reset the value.
                                          So as you said: Reset the valu to zero would "fix" the problem.
                                          http://redmine.pfsense.org/issues/2164

                                          Ermals postet a fix here - perhaps you can try this if it is working.

                                          I would like to see re auth changed to 5 or 10 minutes or have the option for either or!!

                                          Also there seem to be a lot of extra log entry's

                                          Jun 26 09:58:01 	radiusd[31540]: Login OK: [00:1b:38:b0:e1:51] (from client pfsense port 2 cli 00:1b:38:b0:e1:51)
Jun 26 09:58:01 	radiusd[31540]: Login OK: [00:1b:38:b0:e1:51] (from client pfsense port 2 cli 00:1b:38:b0:e1:51)
Jun 26 09:58:01 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1b:38:b0:e1:51 is 114 of 2048 MB! The user was accepted!!!
Jun 26 09:58:02 	radiusd[31540]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 6 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 26 09:58:02 	radiusd[31540]: Login OK: [00:1e:ec:ad:45:29] (from client pfsense port 6 cli 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29)
Jun 26 09:58:02 	root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 118 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!

                                          Another option is would it be possible to too add a [NO login required] status page that lists the used octets files , displayed in MB per user ID ? So users can check their consumption.

                                          If I could write code here is how I would do it.

                                          A script that is run when a browser connects through the portal looking for the address  (routerIP/usage.php)
                                          The script would grab the user ID (in my case it's the mac address. )  then tail the syslog for that ID from the log line```
                                          root: FreeRADIUS: Used amount of daily traffic by 00:1e:ec:ad:45:29 is 118 of 10044 MB! The user was accepted!!!

                                          
I thought about a random pop up but  when using mac auth a router is usually the head with cell phones /xboxs/ playstations and so on behind it.

I'll post a bounty or donate towards this. But first the accounting bug that has carried on since pf2.0 needs to be fixed.
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                                            Nachtfalke
                                            last edited by

                                            If you can - the best way would be to do accounting on a sql database. then just do a query on a user for his amount of traffic. this query will be secured by the user's username/password.
                                            Or you copy the accounting logiles to another server every hour and then you read thios from the files. the number in the files is "Bytes" - if you divide it two times with 1024 you will get the MB.

                                            This would avoid that you need to give someone access to your pfsense in any way.

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