Freeradius COA trigger

[Phil Mayers]

On 08/10/10 16:03, Tim Sylvester wrote:
>>> Now I want to also make Freeradius generate a COA by some other
>> means.
>>> e.g. a tech support guy  clicking "disconnect" on a web page.
>>>
>>> I.e. I want to somehow "trigger" a coa that is not caused by an
>> "update coa
>>> {}" block, but by some external trigger.
>>>
>>> Is this possible in any way?
>>>
>>
>> You can use "radclient" to generate CoA packets; just have your script
>> do that. FreeRadius can (I think) then receive and send on the CoA
>> packets; I'm not sure precisely how you do that, but I think it's
>> documented in the "sites-available/coa" example.
>
> You could have radclient send the COA packet directly to the NAS.

Sure; that's what we do.