RE: [RadiusNT] Automatically disconnecting a client

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Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:25:05 -0700

We have a "Business" account and it is good from 8am to 5pm, Monday thru
Friday. We use SQL queries that turn these accounts on Monday at 8am then
off at 5pm and so forth until Friday at 5pm it turns these accounts off
until the Monday morning 8am query runs again. This is not an ultimate
solution but in conjunction with the Perl script you should be Golden.

-----Original Message-----
From: radiusnt-request@iea-software.com
[mailto:radiusnt-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Troy Settle
Sent: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 8:19 AM
To: radiusnt@iea-software.com
Subject: RE: [RadiusNT] Automatically disconnecting a client

If I understand this correctly, the poster wants to automatically log people
out either at a specified time, or after a certain period of time.

For logging people out after a period of time, why not just set the
Session-Timeout during the authorization phase.

For periodically going through the ServerPorts table and logging people out
based on specific criteria (including a particular time of day), you can
easily use Perl for this. Get the SNMP and DBI modules, then write your
script to loop through the table and send an SNMP disconnect request to your
NAS where necessary. Shouldn't be that difficult to implement.

--  Troy Settle  Network Analyst  Picus Communications  540.633.6327

It's always a long day... 86400 doesn't fit into a short

** -----Original Message-----** From: radiusnt-request@iea-software.com** [mailto:radiusnt-request@iea-software.com]On Behalf Of Dale E. Reed Jr.** Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 1:03 PM** To: radiusnt@iea-software.com** Subject: Re: [RadiusNT] Automatically disconnecting a client****** Jim Whaley wrote:** >** > Is there no way then, to force someone off using radius?** >** > This has been an "issue" with our company also.**** No. The RADIUS protocol does not define Server -> Client intiated** sessions like this. There are tools that are NAS specific that can** do this, though (like the pmcmd for Portmasters). Ascend use to** have (not sure if they do anymore) a reverse-RADIUS type server in** their NASes that would allow you to send a RADIUS-like packet to the** NAS and do things like change user's time, logoff users, etc.****** --**** Dale E. Reed Jr. Emerald and RadiusNT/X** __________________________________________** IEA Software, Inc. www.iea-software.com**** For more information about this list (including removal) go to:** http://www.iea-software.com/support/maillists/liststart**

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