RE: Re-auth failure

["Glen Zorn" <glenzorn@comcast.net>]

owner-radiusext@ops.ietf.org <> scribbled on Friday, March 07, 2008 8:54
AM:

> Thank you for the response.
> 
>>> Shouldn't the network have the option to let the host stay connected
>>> until the expiration of the currently granted session, if it chooses
>>> to?
>> 
>> I suppose that depends on whether one considers the responses of the
>> RADIUS Server to be authoritative or merely advisory.  One can
>> construct reasonable use cases to support either notion,
> 
> For example, if the user is on a pre-paid account and his
> credit has reached 0 yet still has 1 more hour to go with the
> current session, that left-over time shall not be taken away
> from him just because his "request to extend"
> the session was not granted. [I don't know pre-paid support
> well enough to say whether this is already taken care of by some
> means.] 

I think that in this case the problem arises from trying to overload the
Access-Request & Access-Accept/Reject messages a little too much: the
semantics of the question being asked don't match those of the messages
used.

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