New features of RADIUS question.

Scott Harris (sharris@stingray.ssnet.com)
Wed, 12 Jun 1996 11:18:14 -0400


Hi all, we've just set up our 3rd Portmaster (10 dialups and
the ISDN card in this one), and I've been reading through the
docs and the ComOS 3.3.1 Release Notes that were also shipped
with this new box.

It shows in the release notes that there have been new features
added, specifically the per user idle timeouts and per user session
time limits and per user port limits. It states that these new
functions can be use in the user table or as part of the new RADIUS
Idle-Timeout attribute. Setting in the user table works great,
unfortunately with 1000+ entries, we don't use them, we rely a
great deal on RADIUS. But, I try to enter the Idle-Timeout
attribute in the RADIUS users file and it keeps getting a parse
error. So I read further and found that these things needed to
be added to the dictionary file to work properly. As you can
guess, with the current version of radius I'm using, 1.16, these
still weren't defined. But, in the cdrom that was shipped with
this latest Portmaster I found an updated dictionary file with
alot of new features. So I installed this new version only to find
the same thing happened, it still was part of the program, only
listed in the dictionary file.

So, after this long story, my question is, how can I get the use
of all these new attributes through RADIUS?

Thanks for any light you can shed.

Scott
sharris@ssnet.com