CentOS - May 2010 - Free and Robust Hotspot Management Software ?

Dear all,

Could anybody give me some recommended open source software for wifi management?

What I am looking for is a simple and basic tools, for example the software will
have these kind of features :
- user connect to the wifi network
- user got IP from DHCP but he can't browse to anywhere at first. Instead he
will redirected to a "login page"
- administrator will set the username and password (e.g : user1, password ;
user2, password2)
- if needed, the username will be enabled and be given to the user
- if unused, the username will simply be disabled so no authenticated user could
connect eventhough they remember the password.
- I don't need the billing system just the administration tools.

I already googled and found chillispot, but it seemed to be an overkill
software. Are there anything simpler than chillispot?

Thanks.
Roberto

Am 13.05.2010 um 18:49 schrieb Roberto HT:
> Dear all,
>
> Could anybody give me some recommended open source software for wifi  
> management?
>


you could try pfSense.
http://www.pfsense.org

They have a "captive portal" mode.

Coming with 2.0 is a function to pre-generate "vouchers".


Nothing to do with CentOS, but the software is cool and free ;-)


Rainer

On 5/13/2010 11:49 AM, Roberto HT wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Could anybody give me some recommended open source software for wifi
management?
>
> What I am looking for is a simple and basic tools, for example the software
will have these kind of features :
> - user connect to the wifi network
> - user got IP from DHCP but he can't browse to anywhere at first.
Instead he will redirected to a "login page"
> - administrator will set the username and password (e.g : user1, password ;
user2, password2)
> - if needed, the username will be enabled and be given to the user
> - if unused, the username will simply be disabled so no authenticated user
could connect eventhough they remember the password.
> - I don't need the billing system just the administration tools.
>
> I already googled and found chillispot, but it seemed to be an overkill
software. Are there anything simpler than chillispot?
>
I don't know if it is still being supported or if there are better 
alternatives, but nocat.net used to have something like this.

-- 
   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com

On 05/13/2010 05:49 PM, Roberto HT wrote:
> Dear all,
>
> Could anybody give me some recommended open source software for wifi
management?
>
> What I am looking for is a simple and basic tools, for example the software
will have these kind of features :
> - user connect to the wifi network
> - user got IP from DHCP but he can't browse to anywhere at first.
Instead he will redirected to a "login page"
> - administrator will set the username and password (e.g : user1, password ;
user2, password2)
> - if needed, the username will be enabled and be given to the user
> - if unused, the username will simply be disabled so no authenticated user
could connect eventhough they remember the password.
> - I don't need the billing system just the administration tools.
>
> I already googled and found chillispot, but it seemed to be an overkill
software. Are there anything simpler than chillispot?
>
> Thanks.
> Roberto
- Linux-based solution: Endian Firewall -> 
http://www.endian.com/en/solutions/technology/endianhotspot/

- FreeBSD-based solution: pfSense (see Captive Portal) -> 
http://www.pfsense.org/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=40&Itemid=43



-- 
Athmane Madjoudj

"Roberto HT" <htdocs.beto at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Could anybody give me some recommended open source software for wifi
> management?

They're called Captive Portals:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal

That page lists a few of them.


-- 
Spiro Harvey                  Knossos Networks Ltd
021-295-1923                  www.knossos.net.nz
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