(RADIATOR) Forcing reauthentication by terminatiing sessions?

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello John -

The first thing to do is check whether or not your wireless client 
actually displays anything meaningful when it receives a radius reject 
(most don't display the reply message in any case).

regards

Hugh


On Saturday, Mar 1, 2003, at 06:34 Australia/Melbourne, John McFadden 
wrote:

> I'm setting up Radius to support authentication for wireless gateways.
>
> One of the issues we are investigating is how to handle scheduled 
> wireless outages.  The easy answer is turn off the radio transmitter 
> via snmp but we'd prefer to have a better way so users
> would be aware of why they can't use wireless at that time/location.
> I'm wondering if Radius could be used.
>
> ie:
> New Sessions:
> Users trying to logon from location (based on ip number) could be 
> rejected after database check
> and applicable attribute (message) returned.  This seems simple.  
> Anyone doing that type of thing?
>
> Active Sessions:
> Get list of active sessions from that location and force them to 
> reauthenticate so they can same attribute/outage message.  Not sure if 
> this is possible without using snmp against access point or wireless 
> gateway?  Would terminating the Radius sessions do anything?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> John McFadden
> UWO Tech Support
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> Thanks in advance.
>
> John McFadden
>
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NB: have you included a copy of your configuration file (no secrets),
together with a trace 4 debug showing what is happening?

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