Freeradius vs bash control

[Alan DeKok]

On Mar 27, 2016, at 1:21 PM, Syed Jahanzaib <aacable79 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Is it good idea to control users disconnection / coa via freeradius (via
> accounting section ) ?

  Yes.  That's why we have the example of sites-available/originate-coa.

> Or its better to do via bash script which pulls data from the mysql and
> take action accordingly like disconnect expired / over quota users or
> change package accordingly or aimilar actions?

  You can always run radclient from a shell script.

  The difference is that the originate-coa server is run ONLY when the server receives packets.

  You can run radclient at any time, including from a cron job.

  Alan DeKok.