[Freeswitch-users] how to identify caller based on CIDR for billing

Avi Marcus avi at avimarcus.net
Mon Feb 27 11:50:50 MSK 2012


>
> Single IP address matches perfect and I get the accountcode associated
> with the IP from the database, but when I have CIDR192.168.10.0/24 in the
> DB and the IP is 192.168.10.20, how can I match it?

You are manually matching the CIDR to an account-code, by looking it up?
But FS already matched it and set a channel variable for the accountcode
(if you set one in the directory file). (This is as long as you have the
CIDR in the directory and not using the ACL system.)

-Avi


On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 10:24 AM, Muhammad Naseer Bhatti
<nbhatti at gmail.com>wrote:

>
> A  node have a CIDR, for example, 192.168.10.0/24. So anything in between
> 192.168.10.1 and 192.168.10.254 will be processed and passed to the DP, by
> FreeSWITCH, in this case. Everything is ok till here. (I am using xml_curl
> to service acl config) Now the call is sent to the dialplan for processing.
> LUA scripts in my case. The IP address seen in the channel variables is in
> IP format, 192.168.10.20 without the subnet or cidr information.  Single IP
> address matches perfect and I get the accountcode associated with the IP
> from the database, but when I have CIDR 192.168.10.0/24 in the DB and the
> IP is 192.168.10.20, how can I match it? Or I would have to expand the cidr
> range and set them all in the database?
>
> Goni
>
>
> . CIDR will be saved in cidr format. My question was, the ip address will
> be seen in the channel variables, but to match is against the
>
> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Avi Marcus <avi at avimarcus.net> wrote:
>
>> How do you set several CIDR for one user?
>>
>> OK, so if you have it matching on an account - use something like the
>> variable accountcode. What more do you need for your billing..?
>>  -Avi
>>
>>
>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 11:46 PM, Muhammad Naseer Bhatti <
>> nbhatti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This is not a problem. I can set several CIDR(s) for a single user. If
>>> an IP address exists in the DB, the system will not allow any other user to
>>> enter that IP address for him. This is different. I match the account with
>>> incoming network_addr of the caller. Since I am saving currently everything
>>> as /32 and static match the IP address from the DB, so I get the account
>>> code no problem. FS accepts the range happily. /24 or whatever, issue is
>>> only how to process that information when it hits the dialplan and later
>>> mangled by the scripts to parse.
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Avi Marcus <avi at avimarcus.net> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I suppose the issue is that each extensions seems to only have one CIDR
>>>> option per directory-extension.
>>>> I use the variable accountcode for billing.. so a hack would be to
>>>> create users e.g. 1234-a, 1234-b, 1234-c each with their own CIDR and the
>>>> same accountcode of 1234.
>>>>
>>>> Does someone else have a recommendation of how to enter several ranges
>>>> of IPs for ACL for a particular user?
>>>> -Avi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sun, Feb 26, 2012 at 10:55 PM, Muhammad Naseer Bhatti <
>>>> nbhatti at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hello,
>>>>> In order to allow ACL authentication, ACL is defined for FreeSWITCH
>>>>> and IP address is entered in CIDR format. A /32 will have only 1 IP and /24
>>>>> will have 254 IP address range. Now, FS will allow the call if the IP
>>>>> address falls under the subnet. For example, caller IP address is
>>>>> 192.168.10.24 while the ACL node is defined as 192.168.10.0/24. This
>>>>> works fine, but when it come to identify the incoming call for billing
>>>>> purpose, how can we identify the IP address matches to which customer? Or
>>>>> which ACL node for FreeSWITCH. One possible solution is to expand the CIDR
>>>>> used by FS, and then match the caller IP address, but I guess this will
>>>>> take too much resources. Am I missing something here? Or restrict the user
>>>>> to enter only 1 IP address per account?
>>>>>
>>>>> Thanks,
>>>>> Goni
>>>>>
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