Volume Limit per user monthly

[Fajar A. Nugraha]

On Fri, May 4, 2012 at 1:04 PM, yagizozen <yagizozen at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello Guys,
>
> I am crazy about this freeradius and thank all of the developers who work
> for freeradius application. It is great that you are doing such an open
> source application for everyone who needs.
>
> I am reading everything that I found about anything related to FR. And I
> have a question :) Firstly let me tell that, if the answer of my question
> that I am going to ask is located in some doc or another place in
> documentation just link the doc name and I will read it if I did not so I do
> not consume your time.
>
> First of all, the GGSN (NAS), that FR is communication is a Huawei system. I
> manage to succeed limiting a user usage per day (with respect to session
> time) with the use of session-timeout AVP that is located in the
> ACCESS-ACCEPT packet sent to my huawei GGSN and GGSN understand that and try
> to reauthenticate after that value. But the thing that I want is to limit
> the volume of the usage of a user in a month with the use of the
> Acct-Input-Octets and Acct-Output-Octets AVPs. But I am having trouble with
> impelemnting this. I guess I need to generate a counter and this counter
> should count the Input and Output Octets located in the accounting section
> and if it is over the limit that I defined in the users file.

First thing to ask your NAS vendor is whether they support the volume
equivalent of  session-timeout. For example, chillispot has
ChilliSpot-Max-Total-Octets. If it doesn't, then there's no way to
enforce the limit using any radius server. Period.

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Fajar