(RADIATOR) IP assignment by RADIATOR / delay between IP reuse

Mike McCauley mikem at open.com.au
Thu Jun 5 19:08:12 CDT 2003


Hello Rainer,

I cant seem to find you in my records.
Will you please let me know the name of the Radiator licensee involved?

On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 04:01 am, Huber, Rainer wrote:
> Hi List,
>
> In the near future I'll have to switch a radiator configuration (2
> radiators/OracleDB) to IP assignment by RADIUS.
>
> There is one special requirement, which has to be implemented: The IP
> addresses have to be kept back a defined period of time before they are
> reassigned to new sessions (ex. 10 min => IP<->username caches are cleared
> after this time in different applications).
>
> As radiator does not support this at the moment as a feature I've thought
> about the following solution:
> *) 3rd state in the rad_pool table (<AddressAllocator SQL>) => set STATE=2
> when accounting STOP records are received (customized DeallocateQuery)
> *) a cron job (every 5 minutes), which checks if (sysdate - TIMESTAMP) > 10
> minutes => set STATEs to 0
>
> What do you guys think about this scenario - is it worth a feature request
> for the next radiator release (similar to Reclaim implementation)?

Could it be implemented just be customising the SQL queries?

Cheers.


>
>
> Regards,
>
> Rainer
>
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