About Monthly Time Limits

[Lisa Casey]

Hi,

We are an ISP. As many ISP's do these days, we outsource our dialup numbers 
to wholesalers such as Megapops, etc. but we maintain our own radius 
servers. The wholesaler proxies radius requests to us.

The following is kind of  hypothetical, but I need to know this in order to 
understand how all this works.

I have monthly time limits set up in my Freeradius. When customers login, 
where exactly does the information come from that tells Freeradius "This 
customer is OK, he has not used up his time limit yet" or "Reject this 
customer, he has used up his limit for this month".  Is this dependent on 
something in the radius config at the wholesalers end, or is this info taken 
from my db.monthly file?

Another way of asking this question (in case I'm not making myself clear 
which is always a possibility) is:

Does the wholesaler have to support monthly time limits or can I do it all 
from my end (whether or not the wholesaler supports such an attribute)?

Any info about how this process works will probably help clear up my 
thinking.

Thanks,

Lisa Casey