Web FrontEnd Radius Manager

[skyclimber]

Hi All,

I need very quickly a solution to track customer usage that provide private usage report to each user. I found RADIUS MANAGER to meet all my needs. Is there somebody using this kind of solution along with STAR-OS ?

Other solution was PMACCT + Bwstat, but it need to have one machine at the edge. It adds risk and bwstat reports are slow to appear.

[ripv]

This is an area I'm also very interested in. I've looked at using radius but this requires a server (or more for redundancy) and ideally this server or servers would be at the internet feed? Unfortunately at the moment my feed is from an external kerb junction box and there is no room for anyhting apart from my backup battery pack and poe injector! Also I am nervous to have a single part of the network that brings everything down if it fails. Is there any other way to get / compile useage stats per IP - I'm thinking there must be something like a simple version of wireshark that could be used to log this or capture traffic and poll it to something like a syslog server?

[keith.yoder]

We use a Freeradius server running on our virtual dedicated server in California (we are located in Brazil). I realize there is some added risk in doing things this way but we've been running basically problem-free for the last two months since we started using Radius ACL in the 1.2.X betas.

We have a MySQL table with all our customer's MACs and all radius accounting is also logged to MySQL. I currently automatically send weekly emails to customers who are exceeding their traffic limits. Since all radius sessions are 5 minutes long, after that everyone reauthenticates, I am planning on creating graphs using MRTG or RRDtool. Hopefully this weekend I can give this a try.

[skyclimber]

Good news for radius manager!
The radius accounting works for me with Radius ACL enabled on my StarOS APs. Even if my radius server goes down my customers still have Internet access. I set ACL RADIUS. I just put their MAC address in ACL Radius list in STAROS.
I contacted the Radius Manager project leader this week. He will add full StarOS support in his next release.

[viktork]

Radius Manager 3.2 now supports StarOS:

-full PPPoE support (bandwidth limit, uptime limit, auto disconnectin the users upon reaching certain limits, traffic accounting, combined accounting, billing, invoice creation, prepaid and postpaid account and many more)
-partial wireless access list support

The product is already available.