bill payment using RADIUS

[Peter Nixon]

On Wed 23 Aug 2006 14:12, Asiful Mustafa wrote:
> On 8/23/06, Peter Nixon <listuser at peternixon.net> wrote:
> > On Wed 23 Aug 2006 10:51, Asiful Mustafa wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >  Is there any ways that post-paid users can pay their bill using RADIUS
> > > packet? Is there any RADIUS attribute which updates a user account by
> > > specifed amount?
> > >
> > >>Yes. This is technically possible i your NAS sends a particular
> >
> > attribute to
> >
> > >>say increment a users credit and you configure FreeRADIUS to do so on
> >
> > receipt
> >
> > >>of that attribute. Why on earth you would ever want to do this though I
> >
> > dont
> >
> > >>know.
>
>      Because I have to provide a bill payment system to a phone subscriber
> who does not have a GUI so that he can pay bill online. So there has to be
> a way where he will put some pre-generated card-number to pay his bill. If
> there is any other way...please let me know.

Well, there are a hundred different ways to do this, but it all depends on 
what your IVR server is capable of... FreeRADIUS is a bit like apache. You 
can configure it to do many different things, but at the end its job is to 
receive queries from a NAS, do some backend work, then respond in some way.

-- 

Peter Nixon
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