OT: Re: Deny internet access to delinquent accounts

[Alexander Clouter]

Hi,

19bab79 <bryanb at awsllc.net> wrote:
> 
> This is more of a project than a necessity. I was hoping to get this done on
> my own. We can't really afford to pay for the tech support either since we
> are a small company.
>
Well a quick way to produce a budget from thin air is to work out on a 
monthly basis how much it costs *not* to have something like this in 
place.

Remember to include in late payments, interest, your company 
pro-actively chasing after customers *and* the load on your helpdesk in 
time (including the delaying of *real* non-billing calls).  I am sure 
there are other costs you can think of too :)

> I will keep searching on my own and hope some more replies come in. 
> 
Good luck, but seriously you need to spend your time looking into how to 
get your network *infrastructure* (switches, routers, DNS servers [aka 
views] and any proxy servers) to treat users differently without 
changing their IP addresses/etc or getting them to reconnect....on the 
fly and instantly.

Getting something to decide whether a person has paid or not is a flag 
in a database that changes an attribute, this is a trivial problem and 
the least of your problems.

You need to find out if your infrastructure can do what you need.  Means 
you need to know someone who knows your infrastructure *and* knows how 
to build something like this.  You might need to hire in some conslutant 
time.

Cheers

-- 
Alexander Clouter
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