asterisk users - Jan 2005 - PortaOne's RADIUS client and Appradius

Hi all,

I'm trying to get Asterisk do AAA against a Cisco VSA compatible
RADIUS server/billing platform.  I decided to give a try to appradius
(since it was written in C and didn't require all the modifications to
Asterisk that PortaOne's client does) played with it the whole day,
after lots of modifications got it working only to find out that it'll
need a lot more work to support any VSA at all (i.e. cpprad doesn't
support VSA, etc. etc.)

Now, according to the wiki, PortaOne's RADIUS client implementation
uses Cisco VSA attributes, however, I couldn't parse the following
from the wiki.  Does that mean I cannot generate start - stop records
at all or only for failed calls???

<wiki excerpt>

You CAN NOT:
Accounting:

    * generate Start or Alive records, which is doable easily for
connected calls, but
    * you can not generate Start - Stop records for failed calls, so
you can not monitor your asterisk configuration failures via RADIUS.
For instance you may have a dozen of call attempts on some channel
failed due to some configuration error. This is limitation of Asterisk
architecture and needs some serious work.

</wiki excerpt>