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Permanent Users Kicked off every 1 hour and Reconnects immediately after a minute

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Vignesh
2015-02-20
2015-03-02
  • Vignesh

    Vignesh - 2015-02-20

    Hello,

    I created Permanent Users with profiles which limits them to a certain
    Upload and Download data rate. I want them to get connected until I
    manually Kick them off and hence I didn't set any session timeout interval.
    The access point which acts as the Radius Client runs Coova-chilli, and
    perfectly limits the data rate set to each Permanent User according to the
    profile. But the problem is that when the "Stop time" column at the
    "Activity Monitor" hits one hour, they get disconnected automatically.

    To observe this I set up a packet sniffer listening to the Radius
    server(RadiusDesk) to see what exactly happens and the permanent users
    reconnect by sending "Access Request" messages to the Server moments after
    they get kicked off from the Access Point. This is common for any devices
    which acts a permanent user and I think that it may be a bug in RadiusDesk
    which kicks them off exactly on every one hour. Can you please tell me if
    any configuration changes have to be made or is it the RadiusDesk engine
    which functions is such a way?

    Thanks and Regards,
    Vignesh

     
  • Dirk van der Walt

    Hi Vignesh,

    We haven't incorporated any 'funny' behavior in RADIUSdesk and tried to stay as true to the RADIUS protocol as possible.

    Can you double check the reply of the authentication request and check if there are not session timeouts in the reply. (Try to check the reply from a RADIUS authentication by the user using the RADIUS client applet)

    Also on the Coova-Chilli side, is there are not timeouts which kicks in.

    Kind regards

     
  • Vignesh

    Vignesh - 2015-02-25

    Hello,

    I had been monitoring the authentication messages and there was no session timeouts in the reply. The problem was in the Access Point which is running coova-chilli. The WPA-EAP authentication has a default re-authentication time interval, which kicks the users after that expires and the users request back for authentication! This explains the drop in connection between the user devices and the access points. Thank you very much

    Regards,
    Vignesh

     
  • Dirk van der Walt

    Cool!

    Glad you found the source of your problem :-)

    Cheers

     
  • Nahom

    Nahom - 2015-03-02

    Hello Dirk,
    I've sent you a message, but perhaps the messaging system isn't working properly. I need help setting up radiusdesk with coovachilli on an access point that I've flashed with openWRT. If you can get back to me, we can discuss the details nahomt at amestsantim dot com
    Thanks
    Nahom

     
  • Teme

    Teme - 2017-10-30

    hello dirk
    thanku for the efforts of your radius desk
    i just want to ask u how to kick user out when his given time Up?
    thanku.

     

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