Throttle On Cap

[Stefan Winter]

Hi,

> I had some else tell me that this was the only way I could do this. 

Great. So instead of taking the advice, you didn't want to believe it (or back 
it up with some reading) and instead bothered _more_ people with the same 
question. Thanks.

> General question what are the typical type of models used overseas with
> ADSL.

What do you expect as an answer? "Overseas" has a completely different meaning 
depending on where your reader sits. I'm in Germany, so "overseas" is for 
example the US. If you ask me" what are the typical type of models used in 
the US with ADSL" then this question is indeed so very general that my answer 
can only be "lots of". I would even be so bold to say: given the size of the 
US, probably every single ADSL NAS product that is manufactured anywhere in 
the world can be found in the US. Now does that help you? No? Then please ask 
specific questions, preferably some that deal with FreeRADIUS, because that's 
what this list is about.

> As a workaround, do you think I could have session time set to 1hr whereby
> the customer will need to log in then during the logging in process, check
> their usage which will indicate if they are usage is over and then change
> some attribute which controls the speed on the NAS.

Sure. If your NAS supports the "Session-Timeout" attribute, send it along with 
the Access-Accept and set it to 1 hour. Then, when a re-login occurs which is 
over quota, send the throttling attribute (however that is called in your 
NAS, check the documentation) with the appropriate value.
But I doubt you want that. Kicking your customer out of the network every hour 
for no good reason is not very nice.

> I don't know freeradius enough but where could I do invoke this in
> Freeradius.

Sending attributes with responses is a very basic thing to do. Read the 
documentation, and look into the "users" file for examples.

> I also have these attributes specific to the vendor, could you advise me
> how I can incorporate this into Freeradius.

Write a dictionary file for them and add it to FreeRADIUS' dictionaries. And 
please send them to the list in that case as well so that they can be 
incorporated into the next release.

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

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