On Wed, 9 Feb 2005 03:43:20 +0100
Rick van Hattem <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> On Wednesday 09 February 2005 02:32, Jos� Angel Rodr�guez Leyva wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have a little dialin server running Gentoo, and I'm using Freeradius
> > to manage the users weekly time quota they have assigned.  Many of
> > them (on Windows desktops) reach the quota max time before week ends,
> > and are calling me constantly asking if there's a problem with their
> > accounts, because they never get the real pppd error message due to
> > Windows dialup program never show those messages. I was looking for a
> > windows dialup replacement, but I can't find any.
> >
> > I gave them two ways, by mail and by web, to get the quota status, but
> > many of them aren't  smart enough to understand this.  I will thank
> > for any suggestion.
> >
> > Greeting
> >
> > Jose A. R.
> >
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> It is possible to let windows show the messages but I doubt if they will 
> understand it after that.
> I'm affraid the only way is writing your own little app, atleast if you want 
> it easy so everyone understands then its probably the only option.
> I don't know if you have any experience with VB but it shouldn't be too hard 
> to create something like that.
> 
> There might be another option aswell, let them connect and if they have 
> reached there quota then they can't visit any pages and get distconnected 
> after a minute, shouldn't be too hard to fix.
> 
> 
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> Rick van Hattem    Rick.van.Hattem(at)Fawo.nl

how about redirecting all their web traffic to a page that says "sucker you are 
expired" - a bit like a captive portal.

maybe politer if they are paying customers :-)

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