Re: (PM) utilities

Chris Adams (cadams@ro.com)
Fri, 30 Jan 1998 15:34:03 -0600 (CST)

Once upon a time, Chad Scott wrote
> On Friday, January 30, 1998 3:03 PM, Chris Adams [SMTP:cadams@ro.com] wrote:
> > I don't know what to say other than no there isn't. I think Cistron
> > RADIUS supports Session-Limit, which limits multiple simultaneous logins
> > with the same username, but there is NOT one in Livingston RADIUS. Try
> > grepping through the RADIUS source and data files - nothing matches
> > "session-limit" with a case-insensitive search.
>
> Doh. I was reading it as "Session-Timeout". Been a long week... I apologize.

I understand (my reply wasn't exactly polite either). I figured that
was what you meant. Hey, I got it confused when we switched all of our
continuous ISDN customers from Ascend MAX 1800s (and profiles in the
box) to PM3s (conf in RADIUS). I had them all setup with a
Session-Limit = 0 instead of Session-Timeout = 0 and couldn't figure out
why none of them could even connect (I wish RADIUS logged this kind of
stuff better or am I just not sysloging the right stuff?).

> The Session-Timeout *does* work on analog calls, however.

Yes it does. It works great! We have some line campers that we have
told they don't have a continuous connection (we have it in our terms)
and they would stay on until I kicked them off manually unless we had
Session-Timeout. We set ours to 10 hours (our terms say please don't
stay connected for more than 3 hours during peak periods, so 10 seems
good to me).

What do other people that use the Session-Timeout set it to?

It also makes it handy to find the line campers. Just look through the
log for Session-Timeout disconnect reason. We had one guy that had an
ISDN line at his house. I notcied that he had been connected
continuously (except for the minute or two it took his end to realize it
was disconnected and redial) for a week. We couldn't contact him so we
locked his account. Turned out he was out of town for a week or two and
had left his computer on with Windows checking his mail every minute!
We let him know that was waaaay beyond acceptable use.

-- 
Chris Adams - cadams@ro.com
System Administrator - Renaissance Internet Services
I don't speak for anybody but myself - that's enough trouble.
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