Strange behaviour of freeradius...?

[Tas Dionisakos]

Why dont you have the "seession-idel" attribute set, so that when no 
bytes are transfered for a certain period of time the connection is 
terminated?

Tas.


Peter Nixon wrote:
> On Tue 16 Jan 2007 02:22, apolyxrono wrote:
>   
>> Hi list ,
>>
>>
>> I have set up a wlan using : freeradius-1.1.4
>> (peap-eap/mschapv2-authentication), AccessPoint-3Com7250 and windows xp
>> wireless users.  My AP  has the option for accounting and i have set it
>> on. I logged the accounting info in the radius database in the radacct
>> table to be more specific. When a wireless user connected to the wlan i
>> am executing the following sql query:
>>
>> select  UserName , NASIPAddress , AcctStartTime , AcctStopTime ,
>> AcctSessionTime , AcctInputOctets , AcctOutputOctets from radacct ;
>>
>>
>>  and the output is :
>>
>>
>> +----------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+---
>> --------------+-----------------+------------------+
>>
>> | UserName | NASIPAddress | AcctStartTime       | AcctStopTime        |
>>
>> AcctSessionTime | AcctInputOctets | AcctOutputOctets |
>> +----------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+---
>> --------------+-----------------+------------------+
>>
>> | sony     | 10.0.0.10    | 2007-01-15 22:33:12 | 0000-00-00 00:00:00
>> |            41 |            718 |             164 |
>>
>> +----------+--------------+---------------------+---------------------+---
>> --------------+-----------------+------------------+
>>
>> After
>> If the user select from his wireless card software to disconnect from
>> the specific wlan and  make the same query to the database i can see
>> that the AcctStopTime have a specific value and accounting for this user
>> has stopped.  However if  the user  does not  use his/her wireless
>> software to disconnect  from the wlan  and tun-off  the  wlan switcher
>> of his/her card  the  accounting is continued (AcctSessionTime is
>> counting) on freeradius  but  the  AcctInputOctets and AcctOutputOctets
>> stop counting.  Why is that happening ? How should i know when the user
>> is connected in the wlan and the user was just turned-off his/her switch
>> of wlan ?
>>     
>
> If your NAS does not tell radius that the user has disconnected RADIUS will 
> not know....
>
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