RADIUS/PPPoE Dead Connections

[Nikola Stojanoski]

Hello,

add this lines in your ppp.conf and it should be okay for more informations 
man ppp

 enable echo
 set echoperiod 5
 enable lqr
 set lqrperiod 10

Regards

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jeremy Tregunna" <jtregunna at blurgle.ca>
To: <freebsd-isp at freebsd.org>
Sent: Wednesday, December 20, 2006 4:14 PM
Subject: RADIUS/PPPoE Dead Connections


>
> I've got a FreeBSD NAS and a FreeBSD RADIUS server (both running 6.1) 
> serving up access to a wireless network. In any event, everything  seems 
> to work peachy when a user logs in and disconnects manually.  But if for 
> instance, someone closes the lid on their laptop and their  wireless card 
> powers off due to standby mode, the connection to the  NAS is broken and 
> the disconnect request never makes it from the NAS  to the RADIUS server 
> to inform it that the client went offline.
>
> Now then, I'm not so much worried about that stale entry staying on  the 
> RADIUS server until the user tries to log in again (I don't care  much 
> about time used, only bandwidth numbers); but ultimately it  would be nice 
> to have one of two solutions:
>
> (1) A user tries to log in when he's already logged in, have it 
> disconnect that user and then log in; or
> (2) Have the NAS send a Disconnect-Request to the RADIUS server when-- 
> as in the above example--someone closes the lid on their laptop.
>
> An idle timeout isn't a workable solution for me, neither is a  session 
> timeout; I need both to have no fixed limit for all clients.
>
> My ppp.conf file is basically defined as:
>
> ### ppp.conf begin
>
> default:
>   set log Chat Command Phase
>   enable pap
>   allow mode direct
>   enable proxy
>   disable ipv6cp
>   set radius /etc/radius.conf
>   set mru 1492
>   set mtu 1492
>   accept dns
>
> ### end ppp.conf
>
> The relevant users portion is like:
>
> DEFAULT Auth-Type := System
>         Service-Type := Framed-User,
>         Framed-Protocol := PPP,
>         Framed-IP-Address := 192.168.8.50,
>         Framed-IP-Netmask := 255.255.255.0,
>         Framed-Routing := Broadcast-Listen,
>         Framed-MTU := 1492
>
> And the relevant portions of attrs is like:
>
> DEFAULT
> Service-Type == Framed-User,
> Framed-Protocol == PPP,
> Framed-MTU == 1492,
> Framed-Filter-ID =* ANY,
> Reply-Message =* ANY,
> Session-Timeout == 0,
> Idle-Timeout == 0,
> Port-Limit <= 2
>
> Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Regards,
>
> Jeremy Tregunna
>
>
>
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