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      lir
      last edited by

      But the timeout in the captive portal is a global timeout for all users, and there's a special check-box for grabbing
      the session-timeout attribute returned from the radius- if its there then it means it is supposed to work.

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        buraglio
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        Ah, that wasn't clear to me from your first post.  I have not tried the radius provided session timeout.  If I get some time maybe I can test it against my lab setup this week to see if I get the same results.

        https://www.forwardingplane.net/

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          lir
          last edited by

          Thank you.
          I very much appriciate it, it's an important feature for me which I need Pfsense to fully support.

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            buraglio
            last edited by

            @lir:

            Thank you.
            I very much appriciate it, it's an important feature for me which I need Pfsense to fully support.

            I've been really busy this week and have yet to have a chance to try it out.

            nb

            https://www.forwardingplane.net/

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              lir
              last edited by

              Ok cool
              I'm waiting for your reply on it.

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                billm
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                @lir:

                But the timeout in the captive portal is a global timeout for all users, and there's a special check-box for grabbing
                the session-timeout attribute returned from the radius- if its there then it means it is supposed to work.

                Actually, I think that might be part of the radius code that hasn't been backported from HEAD when we last merged in the m0n0 CP code.  This may be a feature that's not supposed to work and needs to be stripped from 1.0.  I'll try and confirm that shortly.

                –Bill

                pfSense core developer
                blog - http://www.ucsecurity.com/
                twitter - billmarquette

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                  billm
                  last edited by

                  Scott can probably add more, but the more I look at the code, the more I'm convinced that this feature slipped in during a merge of the CP code which requires the newer radius.inc and PECL RADIUS that's in HEAD.

                  –Bill

                  pfSense core developer
                  blog - http://www.ucsecurity.com/
                  twitter - billmarquette

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                    sullrich
                    last edited by

                    Could be.  I don't know.  Will check it out.

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                      lir
                      last edited by

                      Cool.
                      Let me know what you find out…

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                        sullrich
                        last edited by

                        We havent changed RELENG_1's captive portal code in quite a while.  That is not it.

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                          lir
                          last edited by

                          Sorry but I'm a bit confused.
                          Is the 'session-timeout' attribute supported or not?

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                            sullrich
                            last edited by

                            Session timeout is working fine for me here.  But I am in no way using radius.

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                              lir
                              last edited by

                              Right.
                              When not using radius, it's working fine.

                              Question is - what happens when using radius?
                              There's a special box to use Session-Timeout attribute received from the radius so why is that not functioning?

                              Thanks.

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                                lir
                                last edited by

                                @sullrich:

                                Could be.  I don't know.  Will check it out.

                                Any new regarding this issue?

                                Thanks.

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                                  sullrich
                                  last edited by

                                  No.

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                                    buraglio
                                    last edited by

                                    @sullrich:

                                    No.

                                    I've been too busy to test this yet, sorry.  I have a lot of travel in the next few weeks so it may be a little while.

                                    nb

                                    https://www.forwardingplane.net/

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                                      hoba
                                      last edited by

                                      You might want to test this with m0n0wall and bring this to attention at the m0n0 list if it's the same there. pfSense's captive portal is a nearly exact copy of the m0n0 CP though it's not the version used  in the latest m0n0wall.

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                                        namezero
                                        last edited by

                                        Looks like m0n0wall's beta 1.23b1 has improvement on that issue:

                                        hanges in captive portal (jdegraeve)

                                        * fixed a bug in the way we handle authentication mechanisms (potentially allowing double logins and faulty locking)
                                            * add support for different MAC address formatting styles
                                            * add support for per-user bandwidth limitation (using well-known WISPr RADIUS attributes)
                                        http://m0n0.ch/wall/beta.php

                                        So if you're really stuck, you might want to take a look at m0n0wall for the mean time.

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                                          sullrich
                                          last edited by

                                          @namezero:

                                          Looks like m0n0wall's beta 1.23b1 has improvement on that issue:

                                          hanges in captive portal (jdegraeve)

                                          * fixed a bug in the way we handle authentication mechanisms (potentially allowing double logins and faulty locking)
                                              * add support for different MAC address formatting styles
                                              * add support for per-user bandwidth limitation (using well-known WISPr RADIUS attributes)
                                          http://m0n0.ch/wall/beta.php

                                          So if you're really stuck, you might want to take a look at m0n0wall for the mean time.

                                          We have already backported this code to HEAD but it will not appear in 1.0.  I agree with namezero, if this is such a big issue then please run m0n0wall.

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