perl examples

[Alex Sharaz]

On 8 Apr 2013, at 13:32, A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk wrote:

> Hi,
> 
>> There don't seem to be many examples relating to using  perl to access remote databases…. in fact there don't seem to be many perl examples at all.
> 
> thats because its a PERL issue not a FreeRADIUS one :-)
> 

:-)) 

but its perl being used within Freeradius (he says batting the ball over then) 

>> In post-auth I want to 
>> 
>> extract the nas-ip address and calling station-id of the client device
>> open a db connection and perform a query that'll let me  decide what vlan-id to send back in the access-accept packet
>> write radius attributes into the access-accept reply
> 
> you need to use DBI PERL to open the connection and then create the query.
> for the query you can use values straight from the FreeRADIUS PERL hook - or assign
> them to variables and use those variables, then run the query and look at
> the results.  of course, you will need to verify that the connection was okay,
> that the query was okay and that the results are okay. 
> 
o.k. can do much of that. \

>> Anyone got some form of template I could use for the above?
> 
> each case requires new code....but a quick Google will show you how to do the DB query
> stuff...I can provide you some templte for assigning variables 
That would be great if you could
Rgds
Alex

> 
> alan
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