I think it's a design problem, I don't want to write other code for radiusnt
(I already wrote a service that monitor restarts and clean serverports
table). I think RadiusNT itself should include this pinging routine, and a
clean routine for serverports table when it restarts unespectedly (or a
specific NAS isn't reachable).
Just some product-improvement suggestions ;-)
Massimo Anicito
ETNACOM Srl
http://www.etna.it/
admin@etna.it
----- Original Message -----
From: Malcolm Joosse <malcolm@hotline.net.au>
To: <radiusnt@iea-software.com>
Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 1999 2:40 PM
Subject: RE: [RadiusNT] Still problems with RadiusNT, START/STOP records &
reboot, electricity probs etc..
Massimo,
I had had a similar problem with my NAS rebooting itself, while RadiusNT
thought that users were still connected and no users could reconnect untill
I cleared them. I have come to understand Radius better and can see that it
works independantly to your NASs and thus requires the NAS to advise it of
users loggin on/off.
I am starting to work on a Servers Alive script that will ping my NAS every
x min and if after x ammount of failures it will clear the users for that
NAS on Radius.
As I have little programming experience it should take a while....may be
some programmers out there can give me a better way :-)
I suggest you bite the bullet and credit your customers hours and get a
bigger UPS for the short term.
Mal
-----Original Message-----
From: radiusnt-request@iea-software.com
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Sent: Tuesday, 5 October 1999 19:53
To: radiusnt@iea-software.com
Subject: [RadiusNT] Still problems with RadiusNT, START/STOP records &
reboot, electricity probs etc..
Hello,
Some weeks ago I sent here an E-Mail where primary subject was (and still it
is) a problem with RRAS not sending STOP record to radius svc in some
circumstances. Microsoft problems.. ok. I accept this :P but there was
another big problem passed unseen that I see only now in these raining days,
when there are more electricity problems, etc.
I've purchased RadiusNT to do time-accounting, so I can sell prepaid
accounts to users who don't want to spent too many moneys in a full 24h/24
time access. Unfortunately.. yesterday there was a blackout where some NAS
goes down for 5-6 hours, where there was online something like 8-10 users
using prepaid accounts. When this morning the electric problem was restored,
I was called from some of these users who aren't unable to connect anymore
because ... they have used all their credit.
... so.. I know that if RadiusNT don't receive STOP record it can't imagine
that user is not online anymore. But, how to make time-accounting a reliable
service? I have this problem when:
- user can't connect with ' ... couldn't be projected on the network' error
- Server reboots unexpectedly
- Electricity problems
what can I do?
Massimo Anicito
ETNACOM Srl
http://www.etna.it/
admin@etna.it
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