[RADIATOR] Change of Authorization

[rohan.henry at cwjamaica.com]

Thanks Kiernan.


On Tue, 16 Oct 2012 01:24:34 +0000
 Kiernan McColl <kiernan at staff.iinet.net.au> wrote:
>Hi Rohan,
>
>I'd suggest looking in the 'goodies' directory that comes with Radiator. There should be some example scripts in there that you could rip bits out of to send a radius packet somewhere.
>
>Although I can't share any specific examples with you, you should be able to make a perl script using CPAN's IO::Socket::INET, IO::Select, and Radiator's Radius::RDict and Radius::Radius (the important one) to send any type of radius packet somewhere and read the response back.
>
>Cheers,
>Kiernan McColl
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: radiator-bounces at open.com.au [mailto:radiator-bounces at open.com.au] On Behalf Of rohan.henry at cwjamaica.com
>Sent: Tuesday, 16 October 2012 3:04 AM
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>Subject: Re: [RADIATOR] Change of Authorization
>
>Michael.
>
>Thanks much for the start. I am going to do some further reading to see what i can come up with. I must also confirm COA support on our Juniper E320 NAS devices.
>
>Rohan
>
>
>On Mon, 15 Oct 2012 13:34:38 -0400
> Michael <ringo at vianet.ca> wrote:
>>
>>This was the hardest thing to get working and automated for me personally.  I don't know if there is an easy way of doing it.  I didn't find one.  I accomplished it with a complicated process.  It could be as simple as a script to execute "./radpwtst -s IP -code Change-Filter-Request etc....."
>>
>>
>>My complicated process goes something like the following, but I would suggest making sure the above simple method works for you as I do have a couple nas's where CoA just doesn't work with the IOS that it has.
>>
>>- a script process that injects Change-Filter-Request packets into the radiator service, using radpwtst:
>>  push( @change_args, (
>>         '-s', 'local radiator ip',
>>         '-code', 'Change-Filter-Request',
>>         "Timestamp=$timestamp",
>>         "NAS-IP-Address=$nas_ip",
>>         "NAS-Port=$nas_port",
>>         "Acct-Session-Id=$sess_id",
>>         "Framed-IP-Address=$ip",
>>         "Class=$class",
>>         "cisco-Policy-Up=$rate_up",
>>         "cisco-Policy-Down=$rate_down"
>>         )
>>
>>- a Handler with custom Hook configured to read the cisco-Policy rate values from the injected packet, and look up the proper policy command from a radiator global variable depending on the nas-ip-address since I have multiple nas's that require different commands.
>>eg. global variable:
>>DefineFormattedGlobalVar 1.2.3.4-RATE100M-up    ip:sub-qos-policy-in=RATE100M
>>DefineFormattedGlobalVar 1.2.3.4-RATE100M-down ip:sub-qos-policy-out=RATE100M
>>
>>- add 2 "cisco-avpair" attributes to the packet with the up rate and down rate commands.  These are the actual commands the NAS needs to change the rate limit.  The policy must already be setup on your nas.
>>ie:
>>cisco-avpair="ip:sub-qos-policy-in=RATE100M"
>>cisco-avpair="ip:sub-qos-policy-out=RATE100M"
>>
>>- then a custom authby that required patching to determine what nas to forward the packet to, since i have multiple nas's. Also another authby that logs this request which is not required but i wanted to log it.
>>
>>
>>There's much more to it, but I don't want to get too deep here.  it all pretty much revolves around building the Change-Filter-Request packet with "./radpwtst -code Change-Filter-Request" and ether send that to the nas, or inject it into radiator so you can do other things with it.
>>
>>
>>Michael
>>
>>
>>On 15/10/12 12:47 PM, rohan.henry at cwjamaica.com wrote:
>>> Hello all,
>>>
>>> I do not see any info on the captioned in the Radiator documentation. Where do I go to see details on implementing COA?
>>>
>>> Thanks.
>>>
>>> Rohan
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