CoovaChilli - 'acctupdate'

[Johan Meiring]

Alan DeKok wrote:
> wlanmac wrote:
>> For what it's worth, CoovaChilli supports an option called 'acctupdate'
>> which will allow for "updated" provisioning attributes to be returned to
>> the NAS in accounting response. Yes, it's not very RFC compliant, but
>> certainly helpful when you don't have the ability to send CoA requests
>> to the NAS. 
> 
>   It's not actually forbidden by the RFC's, or by the (new) RADIUS
> design guidelines document.  It's not a bad idea, quite frankly.
> 
>   Alan DeKok.
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I for one use it quite extensively, and it works very well!

Without it you cannot safely allow dual logins.

(e.g. if a user with 100MB left, logs in twice at the same time, he will 
get 200MB)

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Johan Meiring
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