Help Regarding Freeradius Server Inactivity and client access

Ivan Kalik tnt at kalik.net
Thu May 14 15:28:28 CEST 2009


>    I have working  Freeradius(freeradius-2.1.3-1.fc10.i386) server
> with Mysql and chillispot. I just want to know what should happen when
> user is authenticated and after few time freeradius server stops
> working(due to any reason). In my case user stays on-line even though
> freeradius server is not working.

Yes. That's how are things suposed to be.

> For e.g. user A connects to my
> network radius server authenticates to user and after authentication
> say after 5 minutes radius server stopped working but user A still
> accessing internet as long as possible. I think if server stops
> working client should be disconnected.

No. You should have a secondary (backup) radius server.

Ivan Kalik
Kalik Informatika ISP




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