[freeside] mediation + freeside

[Lal, Deepak (Contractor)]

I would not mind contributing if I could get some information and advice:

1) How does Freeside do the billing now ? Is it based on Radius accounting
records only ?
2) If I already have the mediation done for Netflow or LFAP data and the data is
available in some form (text file), what would the "hooks" be for integration
with freeside? 
3) Would correlating IP addresses with Subscribers and then pushing the
bandwidth/app utilization for each subscriber to the database suffice ?
4) If yes to 3), would I need to define new tables or alter the current schema ?

Any pointers would be helpful.

Thanks

Deepak 

-----Original Message-----
From: ivan at 420.am [mailto:ivan at 420.am] 
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 11:07 AM
To: ivan-freeside at sisd.com
Subject: Re: [freeside] mediation + freeside

Freeside does not yet support billing on netflow or LFAP data.
Contribute or sponsor work in this area if it is important to you.

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_ivan


On Thu, Jul 24, 2003 at 10:45:13AM -0400, Lal, Deepak (Contractor) wrote:
> I am trying to see if I can use freeside to bill users in an environment where
> we are using Riverstone routers. I am collecting flow accounting information
> using open source mediation programs mica and basalt. Basalt gives me a text
> file (comma separated) that has the information for IP addresses/port/packets
in
> and out/etc.
> 
>  
> 
> How does Freeside interface with this file ?  Is the source for billing
> information in Freeside a Radius server's accounting records? Does Freeside
come
> with some process that can read text files? If I need to pull the information
> from the text file, where do I have to write this information (Tables in
> database) so that freeside can do the billing.
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
> 
> Deepak 
> 

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_ivan