Re: Heartbeats Straw Poll

[Skip Booth <[e-mail]>]

Check out draft-ietf-ipsra-reqmts-01.txt.  Section 2.4 has the following
statements:

2.4 Accounting

   Accounting is used here to refer to the collection and reporting of
   connection status information by the IRAS. For remote access, the
   following accounting information is useful:

     o connection start time
     o connection end time
     o incoming octets (with respect to the IRAS)
     o outgoing octets (with respect to the IRAS)

   Note that the requirement for a connection-end-time attribute implies
   the need for a connection keep-alive mechanism of some sort so that
   the IRAS can accurately determine this quantity in cases where the
   IRAC does not explicitly terminate the connection. Also note that the
   keep-alive mechanism in this case is always directed from the IRAC to the
   IRAS.

-Skip

On Sat, 5 Aug 2000, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> > I would add a third reason for heartbeats/keepalives.  To be able to do accurate
> > accounting the SG needs to know within a reasonable time that the client has
> > disconnected.  
> 
> I just re-read the ipsec and ipsra charters and saw no mention of
> accounting as required functionality..
> 
> 					- Bill
> 
>