On Sat, Dec 3, 2011 at 6:23 PM, Hitesh Vinzoda <hiteshvinz...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I get this working now. Thanks a lot to you guys. Now i want to test one > more feature, i.e. Is there a way where we can set the accounting updates to > be triggered at a specific time of a day e.g. everynight at 23:59. My gut > feeling is this has to be configured on the NAS.
Short version: You can't. Don't bother. Really. Long version: There's two attributes that radius can send that MAY be able to do what you want, in a rundabout fashion. First one is Session-Timout, which basically tells the NAS the maximum time the session can last before the NAS have to cut it off forcefully. In some types of connection (e.g. 3G, or ADSL with the modem dialing) the client will then try to reconnect immediately, so this might effectively have the same effect with what you want. You can use unlang with sql expansion (mysql has some nice function for date/time calculation) or exec to calculate the value of Session-Timeout which would make the NAS drops the connection at 23:59. The second one is Acct-Interim-Interval. Similar to above, you can calculate Acct-Interim-Interval in a way that you'd get an Acct-Interim packet at 23:59. For example: - the client is connected on 06:00 - you want interim updates to be sent (roughly) every 3 hours - If you set Acct-Interim-Interval to be 2 hours, 59 minutes and 10 seconds (i.e. 10750 seconds) the NAS should (hopefuly) send an Acct-Interim packet somewhere around 23:59. - you can use unlang with sql or exec (same as above) to perform the necessary Acct-Interim-Interval calculation, but it will be complicated. I suugest you don't bother with either. Really. Just set Acct-Interim-Interval into something managable (e.g. 1 hour), and for billing purposes just use whatever information available at that time (e.g. use last Acct-Interim sent before 23:59). -- Fajar - List info/subscribe/unsubscribe? See http://www.freeradius.org/list/users.html