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Disconnecting Active RADIUS Users
Introduction
- The RADIUS protocol uses UDP to communicate between the client and the server.
- The client initiates all communication and the server simply replies.
- There are however times when the need arise for the server to initiate communication to the client.
- A typical example will be when there is a need to disconnect an active user.
- Since January 2023 RADIUSdesk introduced an update that will allow you do send disconnect requests to RADIUS Clients in order to disconnect active users.
Some technical information
- In order for the RADIUS server to communicate with the RADIUS Client we need determine two things.
- The type of client.
- The type of client in turn will determine how we will communicate with the RADIUS Client.
- We currently support two types of clients.
- CoovaChilli (Used by MESHdesk and APdesk)
- Mikrotik
- In the rest of the document we will discuss how the RADIUSdesk system communicate with these two types of clients.
- We will also take a look where to make changes in order to add support for additional types of RADIUS Clients.