Re: Handling limt credit with Radius

[Carlos Lerma]

>Some people use a solution that does not use Session-Timeout at >all.  They run a daemon that checks the radutmp file every minute >or so and for every user logged in, checks their time credit in >the database and disconnects the account if it's over credit. > >This is quite a kludgy solution, IMHO. > >If you think about it, with Session-Timeout the only little >nuisance is that the user has to hangup to get the new >Session-Timeout.  Is that really a big deal?  How often does it >happen in real-life that the user is logged in and his account is >updated? > > >-- >Mojahed >System Administrator >Agni Systems Limited   Thanks for your comments. Could you give me more information about the How the deamon can cut the session ? I mean, using what type of protocol ? What is IMHO?   I already have the trigger that can tell me if the user spent whole the credit, but I don't know how to tell the NAS that cut this session....   Thanx in advance! Carlos