[rbak-nsp] clearing stale sessions

[Kenny Lunsford]

We had a bunch of half-bound circuits that were not being cleared by the ppp clear command.  Was needing to know if there was a group clear command.  It ended up being a software bug and an XCRP switchover fixed it, but just trying to find different ways to troubleshoot the issue. 

-----Original Message-----
From: redback-nsp [mailto:redback-nsp-bounces at puck.nether.net] On Behalf Of Florian Lohoff
Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 2:59 AM
To: Judith Sanders
Cc: 'redback-nsp at puck.nether.net'
Subject: Re: [rbak-nsp] clearing stale sessions

On Tue, Nov 05, 2013 at 07:15:59PM +0000, Judith Sanders wrote:
> How do I clear stale pppoe/ppp sessions on my SE800, not one at a time 
> but as a group without rebooting my box?  It shows I have 32k + 
> sessions active, no way-only 4890 total and this number is not 
> increasing as the box thinks there are no circuits left.

How could these be stale? Typically you have ppp keepalive and if the client doesnt answer the keepalive 3 times the session will be dropped.

Also we typically give Session-Timeouts via RADIUS for all sessions to the BRAS.  it might be some absurd time like 6 Weeks or 6 Months but at least after that time all resources can be seen as garbage.

Flo
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Florian Lohoff                                                 f at zz.de


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