Dynamic update of rate-limit

[Alan DeKok]

On Jul 10, 2019, at 12:53 AM, Ali Arslan via Freeradius-Users <freeradius-users at lists.freeradius.org> wrote:
> 
> To update users rate-limits dynamically i have defined following custom attributes in dictionary file
> ,,,
> and written following unlang codes in accounting section:
> ..
> if i test it with a user for Mikrotik nas for which GetRate sql function returns 2048k/16324k rate string the relevant part in freeradius debug output is:

  That's a pretty good design, and a good summary.

> (1) Sent Accounting-Response Id 1 from 127.0.0.1:1813 to 127.0.0.1:61732 length 0
> (1)   Mikrotik-Rate-Limit = "2048k/16324k"
> (1) Finished request
> 
> all look fine, but the reply message 
>     Mikrotik-Rate-Limit = "2048k/16324k"
> is not conformed.

  Yes.  The NAS will ignore the contents of the Accounting-Response packet.

> But if i set Mikrotik-Rate-Limit = "2048k/16324k" in radreply table atleast upload rate is obeyed.
> 
> Do i update reply in wrong place, or doing some other things wrong?

  You need to send an empty Accounting-Response packet.  And *also* a CoA-Request packet to the NAS.  See sites-available/originate-coa for details.

  The CoA-Request packet will need to contain attributes that identify the user session.  Typically this is User-Name, NAS-Identifier, NAS-Port, etc.  The exact list is found either in the NAS documentation, or by trial & error via testing.

  Typically you can just copy the relevant attributes from the Accounting-Request packet into the CoA-Request packet.

  Alan DeKok.