Tom Cooper wrote: > We have ADSL users to authenticate on freeradius which reads the user > info via an OpenLDAP server. Now when the user has used a certain amount > of data he must be flagged as blocked. His connection is disconnected > and upon reconnection he is assigned a different IP address with > restricted connectivity until he tops up his account. I can see that his > information needs to be changed in LDAP
No. Don't pollute your LDAP database with connection tracking information. Use an SQL database to track sessions, and reject users who go over their limit. Anyone who is over their limit should not be checked against LDAP. > Is it maybe better accomplished from freeradius than from LDAP? The > record needs to be changed in LDAP for our admin portal to make use of > this to check the client's status. Recent versions of the server include an "sqlcounter" module that does all of this tracking automatically. > My radius version used is freeradius-1.1.3-1.2.el5 Upgrade. Alan DeKok. - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
