Re: (RADIUS) Idle time-out? (fwd)

Don Lashier (dl@newportnet.com)
Tue, 07 Apr 1998 15:35:24 -0700

On 4/7/98, at 10:54 AM, MegaZone wrote:
>Once upon a time Joe shaped the electrons to say...
>>With our one site that uses a USR Total Control Server we set the idle
>>time to 30min. although while someone is downloading a file it
>>disconnects them. So it's disconnecting people that are not idle.
>>
>>I talked to USR Techsupport and they said the problem was because of the
>>Radius Server.
>
>They're high. The RADIUS server just sends an integer value to set the
>timer. Once authentication and authorization is complete the RADIUS=
server
>is out of the picture. RADIUS cannot tell a NAS to hangup at any point.
>If it is hanging up, then it is the TC that is doing it - not RADIUS.

Or maybe the user has the old broken windoze that interprets kb & mouse
as activity, not modem traffic. Have them turn off the win95 idle=
disconnect.

Don

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