(PM) Disabling Idle-Timeout though Radius (fwd)

MegaZone (megazone@livingston.com)
Mon, 5 Jan 1998 15:29:53 -0800 (PST)

Once upon a time Mark Conway Wirt shaped the electrons to say...
>We're running radius 2.01 to control our pm3's, and we have a need to
>disable idle-timeout for dedicated dialup accounts. Now, we don't have

RADIUS cannot override an idle timer on the port to disable it. What you
need to do is NOT set an idle timer on the ports. Then you set it via
RADIUS only for the users you want to have it.

Or set it to 1 second on the port (I believe the special value changed
from 1 minute to 1 second in 3.7 - check the notes) and it will still do
the prompt timeout. Then you can set a longer idle timer for the actual
session for the users you want.

>to force this behavior. Unfortunately, according to the Radius manuals, 1
>second is not a valid entry for Idle-Timeout (where is state that valid
>values range between 120 and 14400, which are in turn rounded down to the
>nearest multiple of 60 (i.e., 1 would be rounded to 0, and 0 -- at least

I don't believe it rounds to the nearest 60 seconds anymore since seconds
are not a legitimate measurement for the idle timer.

-MZ

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