COMMAND
Tigris
SYSTEMS AFFECTED
ACC/Ericsson Tigris
PROBLEM
John Edwards found following. The Tigris is a high-density
router/remote-access platform, currently a product of Ericsson,
more information on it can be found at:
http://www.ericsson.com/datacom/products/wan_access/tigris/index.shtml
There appears to be a bug in the Tigris operating system software
that causes Radius accounting to fail under certain login
conditions. This allows a user to log on to the system as
normal, but Radius accounting data is not sent for either Stop or
Start records, so no call is logged. No alarms are triggered,
and the problem occurs even when multiple accounting servers are
configured for an access partition.
Those who bill their customers based on Radius Accounting data may
be affected. It will also mean that logs will not contain IP
address information for a user, or may not have a record of the
user's access at all. This occurs when a user dials the Tigris
and fails authentication. Part of the PPP Authentication routine
allows a user to retry their login without needing to redial a
connection if their PPP software supports it (this is implemented
in Windows 98). After a user fails their login then retries and
successfully connects, the Tigris may not send Accounting data
for that user.
SOLUTION
The problem appears to be fixed in 11.5.4.22 software release.