[freeside-users] How to configure bandwidth shaping?

[Ivan Kohler]

Make a RADIUS group which is shaped as desired.  Edit your sqlradius 
exports, set "Radius groups to assign to svc_acct which has exceeded its 
bandwidth or time limit" to that group.

-- 
_ivan


On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 10:23:18AM +1000, Amitay Isaacs wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 5:22 AM, Luke S Crawford <lsc at prgmr.com> wrote:
> 
> > Amitay Isaacs <amitay at gmail.com> writes:
> > > I would like to implement bandwidth shaping after the downloaded bytes
> > have
> > > reached the limit
> > > rather that suspending the service. So the user would get assigned to a
> > > different radius group with
> > > lesser bandwidth.
> > >
> > > How does one go about doing that?
> >
> > As for detecting who needs to be limited, you're going to have to
> > tie that into your billing system.  Me, I do it by hand.
> >
> > as for actually doing the limiting, here is a writeup chris did
> > on limiting traffic with tc.
> >
> >
> > http://wiki.xen.prgmr.com/xenophilia/2008/06/traffic-shaping-with-tc-and-xe.html
> 
> 
> I guess I should have described my requirement in detail. I do not want to
> use tc
> for bandwidth shaping. I would like to handle that in freeside and
> freeradius.
> 
> Freeside has an option to suspend the user if the downloaded bytes are over
> the
> limit specified in the package. But instead of suspending the user I would
> like to
> assign the user to a different radius group with lower bandwidth. So when
> the user
> reconnects to the service (with different settings in the sql db for radius
> for that user),
> he will using lower bandwidth.
> 
> I have created a radius group with a lower bandwidth. Is there any option in
> freeside
> to execute scripts or hooks when the suspend event is recognized. Does the
> suspension
> of accounts happen from freeside-daily script?
> 
> Amitay.

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_ivan