No available IP Addresses in the pool ...

[Peter Nixon]

On Wed 02 May 2007, Alan DeKok wrote:
> Florin wrote:
> >> If not, confirm that the pool module name is defined in
> >> the acctounting{} section of radiusd.conf and that your
> >> NAS sends accounting Stop messages.
> >
> > The accounting is performed on a different machine (physically) so no
> > poolname is be defined under the acctounting{} section. Which also means
> > that the machine I have problems with will never see accounting packets.
>
>   Which means IP pools will not work.
>
> > For some security reasons outside of my control, this setup cannot be
> > changed.
>
>   Those security reasons are nonsense.  They're "securing" your network
> by ensuring that no one can log in.
>
> > Will the latest version of freeradius **really** help in this scenario ?
> > How ? Could it automatically free up IP addresses from the pool based on
> > a timer ?
>
>   More recent versions allow pools in SQL, which are easier to manage.
> I think also that the SQL pools will free IP's based on Session-Timeout.
>  i.e. after Session-Timeout, the IP can be marked "free", even if there
> was no accounting packets.

Yes. This is correct


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