Re: [Emerald] RadiusNT - problem with TimeBanking - very big value for Session Timeout

NCKCN ( (no email) )
Tue, 16 May 2000 08:15:13 -0500

Danny,

I don't think the Cisco supports Session-Timeout from the Radius Server. We
have always had to set Session-Timeout on the router itself. There was a
discussion a while back on this very thing and I don't think anyone got it
to work on a Cisco.

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Danny Sinang" <danny@uplink.com.ph>
To: <support@iea-software.com>
Cc: "Emerald" <emerald@iea-software.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2000 5:59 AM
Subject: [Emerald] RadiusNT - problem with TimeBanking - very big value for
Session Timeout

> I am running RadiusNT 2.5.267 along with Emerald 2.5 using a SQL Server
6.5
> database.
>
> I configured several services and made some Service Defaults for them,
> namely :
>
> 1. ServiceType = Framed
> 2. Framed Protocol = PPP
> 3. Session Timeout = 0
>
> I then enabled TimeBanking and gave several users several minutes in their
> TimeLeft field. The problem is, no one gets disconnected after their
> TimeLeft has elapsed.
>
> I inspected the Log file and saw that RadiusNT is sending a SessionTimeout
=
> 0 to the NAS.
>
> Is this the way RadiusNT is supposed to work ?
>
> I tried deleting the SessionTimeout from the service defaults and tried
> dialling in as TimeBanked user. This time, the SessionTimeout attribute it
> sent the NAS is the remaining value of TimeLeft. However, the user still
> won't get disconnected from the NAS.
>
> My NAS is a Cisco 2600 and its debug output does not show anything funny.
>
> However, I noticed that when the NON-TimeBanked users, RadiusNT sends them
a
> SessionTimeout whose value is 679952640.
>
> What could be wrong ?
>
> - Danny
>
>
>
>
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