simultaneous login(s) is not working

Russell Mike radius.sir at gmail.com
Sat May 10 15:11:37 CEST 2014


Thanks Dear Alan Dekok, for your detailed response. very much appreciated.

-- RM


On Sat, May 10, 2014 at 12:31 PM, Alan DeKok <aland at deployingradius.com>wrote:

> Russell Mike wrote:
> > Thank you very much for your response in answer to my request. Sure, i
> > shall send the debug version soon. i want to understand also, how
> > simultaneous check works. Is there any documentation which i can read to
> > understand the process stage?
>
>    The server comes with a file "doc/Simultaneous-Use".
>
> > Could you kindly, tell me at which stage
> > of the process simultaneous login check is performed ? such as "post
> > auth" or ?
>
>   It's in it's own section, called "session" for historical reasons.
>
> > Yesterday i forgot to mention that all related include directives in
> > "radiusd.conf" are opened, such as include "dialup.conf". i also did not
> > mentioned that i do use MySQL DBMS with radius accounting. Yes,
> > accounting is logged in database. FreeRADIUS has been installed on
> > UBUNTU 12.4LTS & Version is Following
>
>   None of that matters.
>
> 1. Can the user get authenticated at *all*?
>
> 2. Have you set 'Simultaneous-Use = 1' for the user?
>
> 3. Is the server receiving ANY accounting packets?
>
> 4. After the user gets authenticated, does FreeRADIUS receive accounting
> packets for that user?
>
> 5. Is the radutmp / sql module logging those accounting packets?
>
> 6. Do the accounting packets have enough information to uniquely
> identify a session?  i.e. no "NAS-Port = 0" for all users
>
> 7. Is the nas_type in the "client" configuration set to a known NAS,
> where the server can double-check logins?
>
> 7. When the user logs in a second time, does FreeRADIUS even try
> Simultaneous-Use checking?
>
>   The configuration is composed of a set of interlocking pieces.  They
> ALL have to be configured correctly for Simultaneous-Use to work.  Some
> of the problems can be due to the NAS, which misbehaves.
>
>   Alan DeKok.
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