Random session drops with Coova-Chilli 1.0.12

wlanmac wlan at mac.com
Sat Mar 14 08:47:20 UTC 2009


It was recently pointed out that some VPN software will send packets to
the default uamlogoutip (which is 1.1.1.1). You can change this setting
by putting "uamlogoutip <ip address>" in your config. To disable the
option, set the IP to 127.0.0.1. 


On Sat, 2009-03-14 at 08:45 +0100, kissg wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm experiencing strange issues, while using the latest version of
> Coova-Chilli. I can log in successfully, but right after that, my
> session gets dropped, so I have to log in again. On the RADIUS server,
> I see User-Request as the reason of disconnecting... This happens all
> the time, the requested site starts to load, but after some seconds,
> the session ends unexpectedly. Starting Chilli in debug mode tells me
> the following:
> 
> dhcp.c: 1938: 0 (Debug) Dropping session due to request for
> auto-logout ip
> 
> Why does this happen? What is that auto-logout ip, at all?
> 
> Some details about my config: Ubuntu 8.04/CoovaChilli 1.0.12,
> installed by using the Debian package version 1.0.12-1. I'm on a
> virtual machine, which has two virtual interfaces, eth0 and eth1, each
> one connects to separate vlans on the host system (vlan11 and vlan12).
> Using the same configuration on a virtual machine which has a real,
> bridged interface (eth0) and one vlan (vlan23) configured as the LAN
> interface works with no issues at all. I don't know too much about the
> internals of CoovaChilli, but I'm pretty sure, that this bug is around
> VLANs. Are VLANs supported by Chilli, at all?
> 
> I could manage to have a working captive portal system by installing
> the latest ChilliSpot version (1.1), but I would like to use some
> features which are only included in CoovaChilli.
> 
> I greatly appreciate any help, because I'm completely out of ideas.
> 
> Best regards:
> Gergely Kiss




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