[Serusers] Prepaid approach

[Daryl Sanders]

This is the right idea.. the bigger challenge is disconnecting the
call in progress after their credit has expired.

- Daryl

On 10/27/05, Ashutosh kumar <ashutoshk at chetu.com> wrote:
>
>
> Hi,
>
>             While trying to implement prepaid solution using SER, I decided
> to go be a intuitive approach which is as follows.
>
>
>
>             -When the user registers, he is placed in a "voip" groups table
> of ser (or radius server database), i.e he can make only pc-to-pc calls.
>
>             - Later , or otherwise, when the user registers, he is shifted
> to a "pstn" groups table of ser , i.e noew he can make only pc-to-pstn
> calls.
>
>             -Henceforth, whenever  the user logins and tries to make pstn
> call, the call is approved only if
> group_radius_is_user_in(username) succeds, else the call
> rejected by SER.
>
>             -To restrict the user from making pstn calls when his credits
> are zero (or beyond a threshold) , a dedicated cron job is scripted to move
> users from "pstn" group to "voip" when their
>
>              account_cerdit=0.
>
>
>
> Am I right in using this approach, or are there any foreseeable problems
> which I might be overlooking.
>
>
>
> Thanks.
>
>
>
> Regards,
>
> Ashutosh Kumar
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> Serusers mailing list
> serusers at lists.iptel.org
> http://lists.iptel.org/mailman/listinfo/serusers
>
>
>