rc_acct_async(3) Radius client library rc_acct_async(3)

rc_acct_async - Sends an accounting request to every configured accounting server without waiting for a reply.

#include <radcli/>

int rc_acct_async(
    rc_handle   *rh,
    uint32_t     nas_port,
    VALUE_PAIR  *send
);

Selects the server list the same way rc_acct() does (acctserver, or authserver under TLS/DTLS). Unlike rc_acct()/rc_aaa(), which stop at the first server that replies and fail over to the next only after a timeout, this sends to every configured server unconditionally, since there is no reply to judge success or failure by. Intended for best-effort notifications such as an Accounting-Stop sent while an application is shutting down and cannot afford to block.

a handle to parsed configuration.
the physical NAS port number to include (may be zero).
VALUE_PAIR list of attributes to send; NAS-Port and Acct-Delay-Time are filled in as with rc_acct().

Avoid using this structure directly. Use rc_avpair_get_uint32() for integer/IPv4/date values, rc_avpair_get_in6() for IPv6 addresses and prefixes, rc_avpair_get_raw() for string/binary values, and rc_avpair_get_attr() to read the attribute type and ID. To iterate the list use rc_avpair_next(). Free the entire list with rc_avpair_free().


struct rc_value_pair {
  char                   name[RC_NAME_LENGTH+1];      // attribute name if known. 
  uint64_t               attribute; // attribute numeric value of type rc_attr_id including vendor; use VENDOR() and ATTRID() to separate. 
  rc_attr_type           type;      // attribute type. 
  uint32_t               lvalue;    // attribute value if type is PW_TYPE_INTEGER, PW_TYPE_DATE or PW_TYPE_IPADDR. 
  char                   strvalue[AUTH_STRING_LEN+1];  // contains attribute value in other cases. 
  struct rc_value_pair  *next;
  char                   pad[32];       // unused pad 
};

OK_RC (0) if the packet was handed to the socket layer for at least one server, ERROR_RC if no accounting servers are configured or the send failed for all of them.

rc_aaa(3), rc_aaa_ctx(3), rc_aaa_ctx_free(3), rc_aaa_ctx_get_secret(3), rc_aaa_ctx_get_vector(3), rc_aaa_ctx_server(3), rc_acct(3), rc_acct_proxy(3), rc_add_config(3), rc_apply_config(3), rc_auth(3), rc_auth_proxy(3), rc_avpair_add(3), rc_avpair_assign(3), rc_avpair_copy(3), rc_avpair_free(3), rc_avpair_gen(3), rc_avpair_get(3), rc_avpair_get_attr(3), rc_avpair_get_in6(3), rc_avpair_get_raw(3), rc_avpair_get_uint32(3), rc_avpair_insert(3), rc_avpair_log(3), rc_avpair_new(3), rc_avpair_next(3), rc_avpair_parse(3), rc_avpair_remove(3), rc_avpair_tostr(3), rc_buildreq(3), rc_check(3), rc_conf_int(3), rc_conf_srv(3), rc_conf_str(3), rc_config_free(3), rc_config_init(3), rc_destroy(3), rc_dict_addattr(3), rc_dict_addval(3), rc_dict_addvend(3), rc_dict_findattr(3), rc_dict_findval(3), rc_dict_findvend(3), rc_dict_free(3), rc_dict_getattr(3), rc_dict_getval(3), rc_dict_getvend(3), rc_find_server_addr(3), rc_get_socket_type(3), rc_new(3), rc_read_config(3), rc_read_dictionary(3), rc_read_dictionary_from_buffer(3), rc_send_server(3), rc_test_config(3)

2026-08-19 radcli