prepaid volume quota with cisco nas

Anirudh Malhotra amalhotra.sp-dl at nkn.in
Mon Dec 28 16:29:11 CET 2015


Hi,

You can check the last accounting session if current hour == acctstoptime hour. And reason == admin reset then do access reject .. And you can check in accounting also i guess that is easy just check it in current hour.

Hope this helps

BR,
Anirudh Malhotra
NKN

Sent from a handheld device, Sorry for typos.

> On 28-Dec-2015, at 16:22, riki <phobie at axfr.org> wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> i am working with Cisco NAS, it supports enforcing volume based quota.
> On first authorizations, i am expected to send QV value. When user runs
> out of quota, NAS wants to reauthorize. No problem on NAS side [1].
> 
> I am on freeradius-3.0.4 from Centos 7 repositories. Accounting is on
> PostgresSQL backend, acctinputoctets and acctoutputoctets are updated
> every 5 minutes.
> 
> I can use following query for sqlcounter check on last session end
> expire it hourly:
> 
> query = "\
>        SELECT SUM(AcctInputOctets) + SUM(AcctOutputOctets) FROM radacct \
>        WHERE UserName='%{%k}' AND AcctStartTime::ABSTIME::INT4 +
> AcctSessionTime \
>> '%b'"
> 
> I want to limit session volume for 5MB per every hour (if achieved in 20
> minutes, do not authorize for next 40 minutes). Counters are cumulative
> for session so i have identified so far these options:
> 
> 1. reset session when quota reached with CoA update/disconnect, it will
> causes new session every hour if quota is depleted and my query works.
> 
> 2. i can use a trigger for update on radacct table which will insert
> delta of old and new value with timestamp to kind of "stats" table and
> use this one for sqlcounter query, counting data for last 12 5-minute
> intervals or so.
> 
> 3. modify radacct table/update query to do the same as point 2.
> 
> If you have some other ideas, please let me know.
> 
> From the future upgrade compatibility point of view, the 2 looks best.
> 
> 
> [1]
> http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/ios-xml/ios/isg/configuration/xe-3s/asr1000/isg-xe-3s-asr1000-book/isg-prepaid-bill.html#GUID-56577557-AC74-42A8-81F6-B61862510C20
> 
> 
> Thanks for feedback
> 
> r.
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