About Monthly Time Limits

[Ben Plimpton]

This is a somewhat related question.  

Can I use an attribute that is not in the Stop record as the key for a
monthly counter?  For example, I would like to make the Ldap-UserDn
attribute the key for the counter.  Is there a way to make that value
available to my counter?

Thanks

On Mon, 2006-03-13 at 22:05 +0100, Seferovic Edvin wrote:
> 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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