(RADIATOR) Needs expet's opinion

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello MJ -

You will need to keep track of both time used and traffic volumes using 
the interim accounting from your NAS(s).

Your script will need to check both time and download volume.

 From what you show below the ACCTOUTPUTOCTETS indicates the download 
volume.

regards

Hugh


On 9 Aug 2004, at 23:48, Mohammad Junaid wrote:

> Hi Hugh,
> You mean every day I should check who is going to expire tonight and 
> then
> disconnect such users using some script. I can do this for expired 
> users but
> how we can do this for users who will be reaching to their download 
> limit.
> Secondly for uploaded and downloaded bytes I have done the following 
> tests.
> Please comment.
>
> ACTIVITY
> ACCTINPUTOCTETS     ACCTOUTPUTOCTETS
> ------------
>                                             -------------------------  
>   ---
> -------------------------
>
> Access Rejected
> 72                                84
>
> Downloaded 996 KBytes file
> 73930                      1252972
>
>  Disconnected within 10 seconds after authentication without any 
> activity
> 808                          120
>
> Disconnected after around 30 minutes after authentication without any
> activity                               2292                          
> 377
>
>
> Regards,
> MJ
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Hugh Irvine" <hugh at open.com.au>
> To: "MJ" <php at cyberia.net.sa>
> Cc: <radiator at open.com.au>
> Sent: Monday, August 09, 2004 2:00 PM
> Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Needs expet's opinion
>
>
>>
>>
>> Hello MJ -
>>
>> For both of these applications you will need to run a cron job that
>> checks the user accounts, disables the account (sets STATUS to 0 or
>> whatever) and then disconnects the user using whatever method your NAS
>> equipment supports.
>>
>> You should do some experiments and some downloads to check what values
>> you get back in the accounting requests.
>>
>> Set up a test call and do a 1 megabyte download then disconnect - and
>> then check the values sent by the NAS in the accounting stop.
>>
>> BTW - you will probably need to enable interim accounting on your NAS
>> equipment (also called accounting alives).
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Hugh
>>
>>
>> On 9 Aug 2004, at 20:48, MJ wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Hugh,
>>> Thanks, it is working fine. I have two more question, sorry for lots 
>>> of
>>> questions
>>>
>>> 1- we are planning to use Radiator mostly for ADSL customers who
>>> usually
>>> keep connected for weeks without disconnection, now users who has
>>> monthly
>>> subscription will keep connected even after their expiry dates until
>>> they
>>> disconnect and then radiator will not allow them to re-connect. How 
>>> we
>>> can
>>> disconnect such users at the moment they reaches to their expiry 
>>> dates?
>>>
>>> 2- we want to bill our ADSL customers based on their downloads, I 
>>> have
>>> gone
>>> through the a discussions on mailing archive and RFCs you copied in
>>> reply,
>>> but still didn't get exact answer, my understanding is that
>>> ACCTOUTPUTOCTETS
>>> is the "bytes downloaded by user" and ACCTOUTPUTOCTETS is the "bytes
>>> uploaded by user". Please confirm. Here also we need to disconnect 
>>> the
>>> user
>>> once he reaches to his download limit.
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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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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