Dear All,

I have a few questions regarding the rlm_sqlcounter module and its configuration. I have a freeradius 2.1.0 communicating with a router running chillispot 1.1  I set up counters for time, data volume, and with different reset periods. All works fine and as expected.

Here my questions:

1) After the time or data volume for a period (say a month) is reached the user is automatically disconnected – as expected. Rather them not allowing to log in , I would like freeradius to return some other attributes (WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Up and WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Down work fine with ChilliSpot) to be sent to the router for the user, so that a connection is still possible, but at a much lower maximum speed. Can that be done, and if so, can someone give me a pointer. I was thinking maybe using unlang, but I may be barking up the wrong tree.

2) The   reset = monthly   method seem to the first of the current month. That is one way of doing it, but I would like the reset to occur at the same date in the month every month. So if someone signs up, say on the 12^th of a month, the reset will occur every month on the 12^th. Can that be done with freeradius?

3) Currently I receive something like   Reply-Message = "Your maximum never usage time has been reached"   when the counter reaches its limit – even when what was counted as not time but data volume. Can Reply-Message for sqlcounter be configured as in the expiration module?

4) One surprise I have had: I don’t quite understand how the system calculates the day for the beginning of the reset = weekly. I appreciate that calculating the day of the week is not easy as for example first of the current month or beginning of the day, so I was not surprised to not have a Monday, but I was surprised to see the SQL query run with ‘Fri Jan 09 2009 00:00:00 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)’ as beginning of the week, when running the query on a Saturday. BTW, SQL time is configured correctly, and the UNIX_TIMESTAMP is giving a correct timestamp for local time. What am I missing?
(Note: When setting reset = 7d, I get something more explainable like ‘Sat Jan 10 2009 00:00:00 GMT+1300 (New Zealand Daylight Time)’, which is the beginning of the today’s day. Should reset = weekly and reset =7d yield the same result? If not, what is weekly vs 7d, and why does the week not start on a Monday?

Any hints welcome