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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