Change of Authorization

[Jeffrey Sewell]

Apologies if this has been addressed before, but I can't find any
references in the Wiki or the archives for the use of rfc 3576 Change
of Authorization messages.

Does FreeRADIUS have any built in way to trigger and/or send a CoA?
How have others dealt with users who have exceeded certain limits but
have not yet reached session-timout?

--Jeffrey
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[Alan DeKok]

Post by Jeffrey Sewell
Apologies if this has been addressed before, but I can't find any
references in the Wiki or the archives for the use of rfc 3576 Change
of Authorization messages.

The server doesn't support it, but there have been discussions around
the topic.

Post by Jeffrey Sewell
Does FreeRADIUS have any built in way to trigger and/or send a CoA?

radclient can send a CoA packet. FreeRADIUS can be triggered to send
one by some policy decision, and fork a shell script that runs radclient.

Post by Jeffrey Sewell
How have others dealt with users who have exceeded certain limits but
have not yet reached session-timout?

Run a script that runs radclient to send a disconnect or CoA packet.

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Post by Jeffrey Sewell
Apologies if this has been addressed before, but I can't find any
references in the Wiki or the archives for the use of rfc 3576 Change
of Authorization messages.
Does FreeRADIUS have any built in way to trigger and/or send a CoA?
How have others dealt with users who have exceeded certain limits but
have not yet reached session-timout?

Hi Jeffrey

As it would turn out I was reading RFC 3576 yesterday and added support for=
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also)

radiusd does not currently respond to or natively send CoA or Disconnect=20
packets however radclient DOES suport them. This means that you can quite=20
happily write an exec/perl/python module which executes radclient (or uses=
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the pyrad library) to send CoA or Disconnect packets.. Please read my threa=
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titled "RADIUS Disconnect support" on the freeradius-devel list which=20
started on Tuesday this week for a little more dicussion of how I think thi=
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could be added natively to radiusd...

If you have any further suggestions please reply to that thread..

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Post by Jeffrey Sewell
Apologies if this has been addressed before, but I can't find any
references in the Wiki or the archives for the use of rfc 3576 Change
of Authorization messages.
Does FreeRADIUS have any built in way to trigger and/or send a CoA?
How have others dealt with users who have exceeded certain limits but
have not yet reached session-timout?

Hi Jeffrey
As it would turn out I was reading RFC 3576 yesterday and added support for=
=20
CoA and Disconnect packets to pyrad (A python RADIUS library not part of th=
e=20
=46reeRADIUS project, but written by Wichert who is one of the FR developer=
s=20
also)
radiusd does not currently respond to or natively send CoA or Disconnect=20
packets however radclient DOES suport them. This means that you can quite=20
happily write an exec/perl/python module which executes radclient (or uses=
=20
the pyrad library) to send CoA or Disconnect packets.. Please read my threa=
d=20
titled "RADIUS Disconnect support" on the freeradius-devel list which=20
started on Tuesday this week for a little more dicussion of how I think thi=
s=20
could be added natively to radiusd...
If you have any further suggestions please reply to that thread..
=2D-=20
Peter Nixon
http://www.peternixon.net/
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Hi Peter Can you please share the code of CoA

[Jeffrey Sewell]

Thank you both for your replies. Sounds like my next step is to
subscribe to the freeradius-devel list. I've not used python much (no
particular reason, just circumstance) but I'm all about using whatever
tool fits the need.

Edge device vendors have some very creative solutions for this problem
(read there "bloated and clunky" for "creative"), but it seems to me
that it makes more sense to happen at the AAA/RADIUS side of things.

Thanks again,
Jeffrey

Post by Peter Nixon

Post by Jeffrey Sewell
Apologies if this has been addressed before, but I can't find any
references in the Wiki or the archives for the use of rfc 3576 Change
of Authorization messages.
Does FreeRADIUS have any built in way to trigger and/or send a CoA?
How have others dealt with users who have exceeded certain limits but
have not yet reached session-timout?

Hi Jeffrey
As it would turn out I was reading RFC 3576 yesterday and added support for
CoA and Disconnect packets to pyrad (A python RADIUS library not part of the
FreeRADIUS project, but written by Wichert who is one of the FR developers
also)
radiusd does not currently respond to or natively send CoA or Disconnect
packets however radclient DOES suport them. This means that you can quite
happily write an exec/perl/python module which executes radclient (or uses
the pyrad library) to send CoA or Disconnect packets.. Please read my thread
titled "RADIUS Disconnect support" on the freeradius-devel list which
started on Tuesday this week for a little more dicussion of how I think this
could be added natively to radiusd...
If you have any further suggestions please reply to that thread..
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Peter Nixon
http://www.peternixon.net/
PGP Key: http://www.peternixon.net/public.asc
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