> > I've been trying to figure out if I can do this within Platypus using
> > the RadiusNT scripts or not. Any hints, tips, pointers, ideas, etc.
> > would be greatly appreciated.
> >
>
>If you can identify these customers in Radiator, you can set up a check
>item of
>Time = "Wk0600-1800" and a reply item of Session-Timeout = "until 1800". That
>way they can only log in between the hours of 6am-6pm, Monday to Friday and no
>matter what time they actually get on, their session will always terminate at
>1800. You could do this sort of thing with a Handler that looked for a
>particular Called-Station-Id for example.
Something like this will work to prevent them from logging in, but it ain't
going to stop their equipment from dialing in, and if their equipment is
set to keep the link up they'll keep trying which can result in a big
Telstra bill. I'm not saying you should leave them on all the time, but I
would go with charging them for hours no between the correct hours as it
might not reflect to well on your business (yes I know you have told them
but you know customers :)
One thing I thought of (If your NAS supports it) is if you're using an
OnRamp10/20/30 service and have some spare numbers, make these customers
dial into a different number (ie your main number is 0255558000 get them to
call 0255558005) use DNIS in your Radius profile so that these customers
can only dial in on on 0255558005.
Then find the SNMP command to set the NAS to accept calls on this number
and how to make it Busy out calls to that number (Ascend Maxs have a DNIS
option like this to limit certain calls ie Modem/ISDN/etc and number of
those calls, no idea if it's changeable by SNMP though).
Then on one of your machines create a script to run this SNMP command and
stick it in CRON to happen at 6am to allow calls and 6pm to reject all
calls. This way they get busied out and no charge!
Now I have no idea if this is possible, perhaps there are other ways apart
from SNMP (TFTP, who knows).
I'd like to hear any comments on this, or if someone want's to tell me if
it's completely impossible let me know :)
Thanks
Ray
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