About Monthly Time Limits

[Seferovic Edvin]

Hi Lisa,

to make it short - when NAS tries to authorize the user, freeradius uses a
simple counter modules ( sql or db file - depending on your setup ) to count
the time information in specific time period. Since NAS sends start and stop
time of a session ( and also the session duration ) freeradius is able to
count the time and authorize the user if the time limit is NOT reached !

Hope this helps !

Regards,

Edvin

-----Original Message-----
From: freeradius-users-bounces+edvin.seferovic=kolp.at at lists.freeradius.org
[mailto:freeradius-users-bounces+edvin.seferovic=kolp.at at lists.freeradius.or
g] On Behalf Of Lisa Casey
Sent: Montag, 13. März 2006 21:40
To: freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org
Subject: About Monthly Time Limits

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
 

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