Can Session-Timeout be used to force users to re-authenticate?

[Alan DeKok]

Jason Wittlin-Cohen <jasonwc at brandeis.edu> wrote:
> I am trying to force my wireless clients to re-authenticate with the
> RADIUS server every 30 minutes (1800 seconds) with the Session-Timeout
> setting. Currently I am testing with just one user, and the
> Session-Timeout = 1800 setting is being sent with the Radius Access
> Accept message (I can see it in the Accept Accept message when I run in
> debug mode). However, this seems to have no affect. The user does not
> re-authenticate at the given interval.

  Then the AP does not support Session-Timeout.

  There really isn't a good way to do this, if the AP doesn't support it.

  Alan DeKok.
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