NAME
isdnd.rates —
isdn4bsd ISDN management
daemon rates description file
DESCRIPTION
The file
isdnd.rates contains descriptions how long charging
units last at a given time of day, day of week and the distance to the
destination. If this file is available, this information may be used by the
isdnd(8) ISDN connection
management daemon to calculate the short hold time for a connection.
The format of a rate entry line is as follows:
The first field, the (
rate-code) defines a collection of
rates (for each day of the week) which can be referenced in the
isdnd(8) configuration file
isdnd.rc(5). This field must
start with the identifier “ra” followed by a digit in the range of
zero to four.
The second field, the (
day-number) selects the day of week
for which this entry defines the rates, where 0 stands for Sunday, 1 for
Monday and so on until the digit 6 which stands for Saturday.
The rest of the line consists of one or more space separated fields which have
the following syntax:
start_hour.start_minutes-end_hour.end_minutes:charge_unit_length
Start_hour and start_minutes define the begin of a time section and end_hour and
end_minutes define the end. Charge_unit_length define the length of a charging
unit in the previously defined time section. No spaces or tabs are allowed
inside this field. The hour and minutes specifications MUST have exactly 2
digits, in case just one digit is needed, a leading 0 must be used.
For example,
14.00-18.00:90
defines, that between 2:00 PM and 6:00 PM the length of one charging unit lasts
90 seconds.
FILES
- /etc/isdn/isdnd.rates
- The default rates specification file for the
isdnd ISDN daemon.
EXAMPLES
The line:
ra0 0 00.00-05.00:240 05.00-21.00:150 21.00-24.00:240
defines the unit lengths for a Sunday.
SEE ALSO
isdnd.rc(5),
isdnd(8)
AUTHORS
The rates subsystem for the
isdnd(8) daemon to which
isdnd.rates belongs was designed and written by
Gary Jennejohn.
The
isdnd(8) daemon and this manual
page were written by
Hellmuth Michaelis
<
hm@kts.org>.