Hi all.  I am new to the list and m0n0wall so tell me to shut up if this has 
already been solved.

Back on My 28th Peter Curran posted about his work on the RADIUS feature added 
to the captive portal.  I am very interested in helping with this venture.  I 
fixed the RADIUS support in NoCat as well as wrote the RADIUS accounting for 
it.  I am more impressed with m0n0wall at this point and want to see those 
same features make their way into this project.

There was a question about "hard timeouts" in the original post.  I assume 
this means a maximum time that the user can be logged in for any given 
session right?  If so there is already an attribute for the response packet 
that handles this, Session-Timeout.  Unlike the name might suggest it isn't a 
"timeout" but more a time limit.  This Session-Timeout value can always 
return some number of minutes, say 60, for each session or it can be 
calculated by your RADIUS server to provide for a some many minutes per 
day/month/year solution.  The RADIUS session must terminate when 
Session-Timeout expires, whish is what I think you guys are looking for.  I 
implemented this feature in NoCat and it works great.  We can now produce 
"calling cards" for our hotspots that only have 60 minutes for life on them.  
We can also create plans that have 4 hours week max.

I haven't looked closely but it sounds like you have implemented the 
Idle-Timeout attribute.  If you haven't that would be a good one to do as 
well.  I never go around to finishing that for NoCat unfortunately.  Users 
that are on a minute/period plan might want shorter timeouts than someone 
that is on an unlimited plan.  Being able to adjust the timeout per user is 
very handy.

Anyway, like I said, I really want to help out with the captive portal and 
RADIUS integration.  Would those involved in that feature please contact me 
so I can get up to speed.

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Jacob S. Barrett
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