Cleanup Stale Sessions - needed?

[Marinko Tarlać]

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I wrote at least 10 times about this problem ....

On 8/8/2011 12:22 PM, Paolo Di Francesco wrote:
> Hi radius gurus,
>
> I am still having issues with this configuration. In few words I am
> still "cleaning" by hand some users but I would love that would be done
> by radius each time that it checks if the user is online or not.
>
> In few words:
>
> 1) the user is disconnected
> 2) the user tries to get into the net, and it knocks the NAS
> 3) the NAS knocks the radius saying "hey this guy wants to get in"
> 4) the radius asks to the NAS "hey the user is already online or not?"
> and the NAS says "no I have no user with that name" (checkrad)
> 5) but the radius thinks the user is still online somewhere because it
> shows online into the mysql database, therefore the answer is "no, this
> user is already online somewhere"
>
> So I am looking for some script/hint/whatever to CLEAN those users who
> are not online but still "online" into the mysql.
>
> Suggestions very welcome!
>
>
>
>> Hi Radius Gurus
>>
>> I have a problem with one not-so-typical situation.
>>
>> First of all, I am running daloradius on top of Freeradius:
>>
>> [root at radman ~]# radiusd -v
>> radiusd: FreeRADIUS Version 2.1.7, for host i686-redhat-linux-gnu, built
>> on Mar 31 2010 at 00:25:31
>> Copyright (C) 1999-2009 The FreeRADIUS server project and contributors.
>> There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
>> PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
>>
>>
>> I have just update my network topology and therefore I moved some NASes
>> from one server to another.
>>
>> When I did this change, obviously I did it without worrying what could
>> happen to the radiusd. So I simply moved the NASes on new IPs/servers
>> and restarted the radiusd.
>>
>> Now I have the users trying to get into the network but they look
>> "online" to radiusd on the old NASes. In few words the connection is
>> refused because radiusd thinks that the user is ALREADY online on the
>> "old NAS" (not true) and it does not permit the user to get into the
>> network.
>>
>> So I have this teasing menu option in daloradius which is called
>> "Cleanup Stale Sessions". I think it does exactly what I need but:
>>
>> 1) I do not want to break the radiusd
>> 2) I do not want to loose my radius logs ("who had that IP that day..")
>> 3) I do not know if this is the right "button" to click
>>
>> So I am asking you if you have any idea of how to solve this issue and
>> if I should click that button
>>
>> Thank you in advance
>>
>> (radiusd log follows)
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>>   Auth: Multiple logins (max 1) [MPP attempt]: [myuser at mynet.org] (from
>> client  xyz port 45118 cli 00:15:6D:5E:0A:82)
>>
>> -----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
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