Hi Hendrik, > Now we are thinking about the technical > realization of that issue - what does radius server do to detect a > timeout, let's say 10 minutes? Is the server collecting traffic > statistics on the interface(s) and decides depending on those stats > what to do?
Radius does not collect any data from interfaces. It's only purpose is to receive requests from network access servers, process them and answer them back. Once the request is answered, Radius has no way of further control over the NAS or the session. Session timeouts are normally controlled by returnint the Session-Timeout attribute in the answer to Access-Requests. Idle timeouts are set by returning the Idle-Timeout attribute in the same response. Additionally, particular NAS vendors may supply their own vendor attributes to control these. The GNU Radius Manual will supply a more detailed information on the subject. It is avialable online in various formats from http://www.gnu.org/software/radius/manual. Regards, Sergey _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-radius mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-radius
