Well the issue is that yes you do need everything stored in Rodopi so that total time for the given period is correct. For example say you limit an account to 300 hours per month, and they use 295 hours, then call up for 2 hours hang up, then 2 minutes later call back. The system should know that they now only have 3 hours left and thus set a session limit of 3 hours. If the data is not being processed real-time then there is no way for the RADIUS server to accurately know what the exact limit of the session should be. Without real-time processing of the RADIUS accounting packets then on the second call it would think it still had 5 hours left rather than only 3 hours left.
Does that make sense? That is why I am trying to get FreeRADIUS to integrate with Rodopi so it does the time length stuff correctly. Tim Jung System Admin Internet Gateway [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Simon White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:42 PM Subject: Re: Most Popular method for managing users in FreeRadius > 27-Jan-03 at 14:37, Tim Jung ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > > I saw this posting and wanted to ask a few questions. Has anyone setup > > FreeRADIUS so it authenticates users and stores the accounting logs in > > MSSQL for use by Rodopi? I am interested in knowing if anyone has setup > > FreeRADIUS and Rodopi together so that pre-paid cards and dialup account > > time limits work and limit a users time so when they reach the limit it > > will kick them off by setting the session length correctly. > > > > If anyone has any pointers for this information I would appreciate it. We > > are already using Rodopi to import standard RADIUS logs and make the users > > file, but would prefer to see this integrated better so we can suppose > > pre-paid cards. In case it makes any difference we would like to run > > FreeRADIUS on our Red Hat Linux server. Right now we are running Cistron > > which as you know isn't really setup for pre-paid cards. > > This would be interesting for me too, but I haven't had the time to > implement it yet. I don't think you need it to store to MSSQL, you can > just have RODOPI send the right attributes upon account creation/renewal > I think. > > Let me know how you get on and come back with more specific questions. > I'm familiar with Rodopi 5.1... > > -- > |-Simon White, Internet Services Manager, Certified Check Point CCSA. > |-MTDS Internet, Security, Anti-Virus, Linux and Hosting Solutions. > |-MTDS 14, rue du 16 novembre, Agdal, Rabat, Morocco. > |-MTDS tel +212.3.767.4861 - fax +212.3.767.4863 > > - > List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html
