MAX-Monthly-Traffic V2 Post

[Alexandre Chapellon]

Le jeudi 20 août 2009 à 01:07 +0100, Neville a écrit :

> Hi Alex,
> 
> > You are expecting an interim update to send session-timeout to your nas
> > so it disconnect your user?
> > If so, two things seems incorrect to me.
> >
> >    1- You're measuring traffic volume and want disconnection to set
> > based on time (session-timout)... a bit tricky isn't it?
> 
> So VERY True, Too many late nights and I really do appreciate your input as 
> this gave me food for thought and I now have EVERYTHING Working.
> 
> Both for Traffic & Session USAGE.
> 
> For Usage, I still had to use Max-Monthly-Traffic as a Check := and based on 
> sqlcounter calc, do a Reply = Sessions-Octets-Limit = XXXXXX on the 
> Access-Accept as this is supported by the ppp 2.4.4 NAS.


Sessions-Octets-Limit!? how lucky you are to have nas devices allowing
such a cool feature! I'd love redback NASes to have the same type of
feature! (I wil query the list.. maybe someone knows more about redback
devices)


> 
> What I would like to know now, is how I can use sqlcounter to do a Month 
> Calculation based on the date of the account being registered and NOT the 
> Calander Month?  Anyone?


More an sql query problematic i guess... I can't help here! :)


> 
> >    2- I think the attribute "Session-Timeout" cannot be found in
> > interim-updates packets (maybe I'm wrong), rfc 2869 specify that:  "It
> > is envisioned that an Interim Accounting record (with Acct-Status-Type =
> > Interim-Update (3)) would contain all of the attributes normally found
> > in an Accounting Stop     message with the exception of the
> > Acct-Term-Cause attribute."
> >
> > What you would need is an attribute known by your nas and representing
> > remaining traffic. That attrbute should be sent at acct-start time and
> > would trigger a disconnection from the NAS when traffic limit is
> > reached. If such a attribute does not exists for your NAS, you should
> > take a look at CoA server.
> > Maybe someone have better idea...?
> >
> > Le mercredi 19 ao?t 2009 ? 15:56 +0100, Neville a ?crit :
> >
> 
> Cheers
> Nev
> 
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