Just a thought...
If the IP address was re-allocated later on wouldn't there be two entries in
RADONLINE for it?
You could possibly check for the IP address in radonline as well, if it is
allocated twice - blow away the oldest one!
Regards,
Brian Morris
----- Original Message -----
From: Hugh Irvine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: Clement <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2000 12:24 PM
Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Simultaneous use - Using ping test
>
> Hi Clement -
>
> On Thu, 18 May 2000, Clement wrote:
> > We are renting some ports from another ISP who does not allow us to do
> > SNMP checking if a user is still on-line. Occassionally, an account
> > close packet is lost and users will be locked out because Radiator
> > "believes" the previous session is still on-line.
> >
> > Can Radiator, in addition to SNMP and finger tests, add a ping test
> > option to check if the previous session is still on-line? That can fix
> > the problem to a large extent.
> >
>
> This is quite a good idea, albeit with one significant drawback, which is
that
> the address could have been re-allocated between the time that the session
in
> question finished (and the stop packet lost) and the user trying to
reconnect.
>
> I have posted this to the list too, in the expectation that other Radiator
> users might have some thoughts on this.
>
> It would be relatively simple to add a Nas-Type of "Ping", so my question
to
> the list is how many people out there would find this useful? I am
thinking
> specifically of the somewhat frequent case of different NAS-Port reporting
in
> radius packets compared to SNMP results. This isn't a perfect solution,
but it
> may be useful nonetheless.
>
> Comments?
>
> regards
>
> Hugh
>
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