[isf-wifidog] immediate user disconnect feature

Wichert Akkerman wichert at wiggy.net
Lun 21 Avr 13:49:24 EDT 2008


Benoit Grégoire wrote:
> On 21 April 2008, Wichert Akkerman wrote:
>> I'm looking at implementing an immediate disconnect feature in the
>> gateway. The basic flow I'm using is:
>>
>> - auth server sends a disconnect command to the gateway, specifying
>>   enough information to find the client and authenticate the request
>> - gateway removes client from the client list
>> - gateway sends counters to auth server
>> - gateway sends logout to auth server
> 
> That's exactly what will happen (but not in that order) if the auth server 
> replies with a DENY to a counter update.
> 
> Note that it is always assumed that the auth server cannot reach the gateway 
> directly, that is a fundamental feature of wifidog and it's protocol.

In my case the auth server can reach the gateway just fine.

> It is, and that feature already exists.  See 
> http://dev.wifidog.org/wiki/doc/developer/WiFiDogProtocol_V1, bottom of the 
> page.


Except it does not handle counters properly (see my other mail) and does not 
generate a response the auth server parse to check for succes/failure.

Wichert.

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