Hello Mariano -
On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Mariano Absatz wrote:
> Hi people,
>
> anyone out there had any experience with a Nortel "shasta" & radiator?
>
> We are about currently using cistron and are planning to migrate to
> radiator soon.
>
> The problem we currently have is that the shasta apparently doesn't send
> any kind of "port #". Actually, it doesn't HAVE ports, since it's an L2TP
> tunnel terminator, in fact, it's a lot more things but, from our point of
> view, we receive request to authenticate sessions.
>
> Our customer also have a couple of IBM LNS's that are also working as
> L2TP tunnel terminators and those DO send a virtual "port#" which is used
> to keep track of who is logged in and over which we know that if we get
> another auth-req with the same port# we have as logged in, we know we
> missed the stop packet.
>
> The point is, since the shasta doesn't send this port#, our radiusd used
> to assume it was a telnet connection and didn't treat it as a ppp auth-
> req and didn't keep track of Simultaneous-use (users could log in as many
> times as they wished).
>
> We modified the source inserting a fictitious port# and it kinda worked
> but it's still doing awful things. Though we keep working on this I would
> like to know if anyone had any experience with this kind of stuff...
>
Radiator doesn't necessarily have to use a port# for simultaneous use checking.
You can either specify your own SQL queries with the SessionDatabase SQL, or
you can use the AuthBY PORTLIMITCHECK.
Have a look at sections 6.7 and 6.38 in the Radiator 2.16.3 reference manual.
regards
Hugh
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