The Radius attribute 18 message is not put in any PPP packet.
Feel free to write an RFC to do it. I think it would be very useful.
PPP EAP has the potential to do the job.
Cheers
James


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com
> [mailto:owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of Jeroen Veen
> Sent: 22 November 2001 13:36
> To: 'James Courtier-Dutton'; ascend-users at bungi.com
> Subject: RE: (ASCEND) Using Radius attribute 18 (reply message) in a MAX
> TNT
> 
> 
> That's what we currently do.
> 
> Using the radius attribute seems like a more elegant option 
> though and that
> also gives us the option to send back more usefull error messages than
> "error -235256, connection was not established" and the likes.
> 
> Looks like we're going to have to ask our software engineers to dive into
> windows' ppp stack to get that message into some other window then :-).
> 
> Greetings,
> Jeroen
> 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: James Courtier-Dutton [mailto:James at superbug.demon.co.uk]
> > Sent: Thursday, November 22, 2001 1:35 PM
> > To: Jeroen Veen; ascend-users at bungi.com
> > Subject: RE: (ASCEND) Using Radius attribute 18 (reply 
> > message) in a MAX
> > TNT
> > 
> > 
> > The message will only get displayed in the "Terminal windows 
> > after dial"
> > screen.
> > If the user is doing just PPP, the message will never be seen 
> > by the user.
> > An approach some people take, is to put a filter on the user 
> > if they have
> > not paid their bill, so that no matter which web site they 
> > try to get to, it
> > will display the same "Pay bill please" web page.
> > Cheers
> > James
> > 
> > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com
> > > [mailto:owner-ascend-users at max.bungi.com]On Behalf Of Jeroen Veen
> > > Sent: 22 November 2001 10:00
> > > To: 'ascend-users at bungi.com'
> > > Subject: (ASCEND) Using Radius attribute 18 (reply message) 
> > in a MAX TNT
> > >
> > >
> > > Greetings,
> > >
> > > Does anyone here have any experience in/on (?) using these 
> > (Radius reply)
> > > messages to send specific messages to a user? As in "You 
> > cannot log in
> > > because you didn't pay your bill" and such.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > >
> > > Jeroen Veen
> > > Planet Media Group
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