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color:#1F497D'>How is FreeRADIUS supposed to know when a user disconnects and
frees up the IP address from the pool if the NAS doesn’t tell it? Anything else
is not exactly reliable. If you have a user with a long duration session that
lasts longer than your timeout the IP could be put back into the pool when it
is still in use.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";
color:#1F497D'>The best solution would be to fix the NAS to send the packets or
fix the network to make sure they get delivered.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>Michael<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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color:#1F497D'>----------------------------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;
color:#1F497D'>Michael J. Hartwick, VE3SLQ <a
href="mailto:hartwick@hartwick.com">hartwick@hartwick.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;
color:#1F497D'>Hartwick Communications Consulting (519)
396-7719<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas;
color:#1F497D'>Kincardine, ON, CA <a
href="http://www.hartwick.com">http://www.hartwick.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span
style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>
freeradius-users-bounces+hartwick=hartwick.com@lists.freeradius.org
[mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+hartwick=hartwick.com@lists.freeradius.org] <b>On
Behalf Of </b>Tabacchiera Stefano<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Tuesday, May 04, 2010 15:39<br>
<b>To:</b> freeradius-users@lists.freeradius.org<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: R: Re: R: Re: R: rlm_ippool: No available ip addresses in
pool<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>>Tabacchiera Stefano
wrote:<br>
>> Alan,<br>
>> here's the content of gdbm db:<br>
><br>
> Ah... it's the DBM pools.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I already stated that in the
subject of my mail (did you notice the module name?).</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>><br>
> Well.. use "rlm_ippool_tool" to manage the pool.<br>
></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Great idea! Too bad that tool allow only to
cleal *all* the entries in the DBM pool.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Or am I just missing something?</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p> <o:p></o:p></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'><br>
> Or, get your NAS to send accounting stop packets. It's
*supposed* to<br>
>send stop packets when a user session is cleared.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>As I already said, I know the
NAS sometimes doesn't send acct-stop pkts, but it's out of my control.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>My questions (still unanswered, let me say)
are: <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'> <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>1) is maximum_timeout useless?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>2) Is there a way to keep my dbm
pool safe and updated (I mean no expired addresses), even in the
case some acct-stop pkt are loss?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>3) Should I switch to sql pool, 'cause dbm
it's actually unreliable?<span style='color:#1F497D'><o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
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