(RADIATOR) Re: Link down Radiator at far end of the link showing user logged

Hugh Irvine hugh at open.com.au
Thu Aug 9 01:29:50 CDT 2001


Hello -

You may want to consider enabling Radius Accounting Alives on your NAS 
equipment, and using the Alive packets for your biling purposes. There isn't 
anything that can be done in Radiator to verify NAS operation, and hence 
correct and/or collect billing information.

regards

Hugh


On Thursday 09 August 2001 16:03, cistron wrote:
> Thanks Irvine, but if the NAS cannot be restarted due to some problems,
> then the Radiator will continously show that the users are logged on and
> they will be billed for those hours they have not used. Can you kindly
> suggest some solution.
>
> Thanks and Regards.
>
> Hugh Irvine wrote:
> > Hello -
> >
> > On Wednesday 08 August 2001 21:42, cistron wrote:
> > > Dear friends,
> > >
> > > My Radiator Server and NAS client are at different location connected
> > > by lease line. In case the link goes down all those users who are
> > > connected from that link are shown as connected although they are not
> > > connected any more. Can Radiator do some polling to check whether the
> > > client is dead or alive.
> >
> > I am not sure what you are asking here. Normally, Radiator acts only as a
> > server - it never checks whether a NAS is there or not. Just because the
> > link between the Radiator host and the NAS goes down, it does not mean
> > that users are disconnected from the NAS.
> >
> > If the NAS itself does go down, Radiator will receive a startup message
> > from it when it restarts, and will clear the session database for the NAS
> > automatically.
> >
> > If you want to do network health checks, you should probably look at some
> > sort of network monitoring software (via SNMP or whatever).
> >
> > regards
> >
> > Hugh
> >
> > --
> > Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server
> > anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X.
> > -
> > Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
> > flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.

-- 
Radiator: the most portable, flexible and configurable RADIUS server 
anywhere. Available on *NIX, *BSD, Windows 95/98/2000, NT, MacOS X.
-
Nets: internetwork inventory and management - graphical, extensible,
flexible with hardware, software, platform and database independence.
===
Archive at http://www.open.com.au/archives/radiator/
Announcements on radiator-announce at open.com.au
To unsubscribe, email 'majordomo at open.com.au' with
'unsubscribe radiator' in the body of the message.


More information about the radiator mailing list