On Jun 15, 8:33am, Hugh Irvine wrote:
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Sim. use control by Ping
>
> Hello Clement -
>
> On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Clement wrote:
> > Hi Mike and Hugh,
> >
> > Thank you very much for the new feature. Most of the time, it works
> > well. However, we just come into a situation when the old IP was
> > reallocated and the PING test just failed to tell.
> >
> > I think the solution is simple. Before writing a new session record,
> > remove any existing one with the same IP address. This should be true
> > in all situations. An IP address just cannot be used by 2 or more
> > connections at the same time. For session data base using SQL, which we
> > are, it may need only one SQL statement like this to do the job.
> >
> > delete * from RADONLINE where FRAMEDIPADDRESS = 'new.ip.addr';
> >
> > Can you gentlemen make the change? I think it can be a 2 minute job for
> > you experts.
>
> This is exactly what one of our other customers has done - he added a
> "DeleteIPQuery" to the session database. We haven't yet included this in
> Radiator because we are concerned about the potential for the session
database
> to become corrupted in some circumstances.
>
> I've forwarded your thoughts to Mike.
The DeleteQuery gets run just before adding a new session. I wonder if the
right thing is to alter the DeleteQuery so it deletes the IP address too:
DeleteQuery delete from RADONLINE where (NASIDENTIFIER='%N' and
NASPORT=0%{NAS-Port}) or FRAMEDIPADDRESS = '%{Framed-IP-Address}'
Thoughts?
Cheers.
>
> many thanks for your contributions
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
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