I have a client who has 3 restaurants and wants to provide wifi access to the customers. He wants to be able to control who and when it can be accessed. He is not planning on charging for the access at the moment but certainly would like that ability. I want to use freebsd, but can not find a software pkg that will allow me to do this. Does anyone have an idea or better yet implemented something like this? Thanks in advance, Jeff
jeff, http://www.chillispot.org/ chilli is what your looking for. i have it running on 5.3. there is not much BSD documentation on setting it up. if you have any questions or problems setting it up, let me know and i'll do what i can to help. -- les On Fri, 25 Mar 2005, Jeff Seeman wrote:> I have a client who has 3 restaurants and wants to provide wifi access > to the customers. He wants to be able to control who and when it can be > accessed. He is not planning on charging for the access at the moment > but certainly would like that ability. I want to use freebsd, but can > not find a software pkg that will allow me to do this. Does anyone have > an idea or better yet implemented something like this? > > Thanks in advance, > > Jeff > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >-- R. "les" Leslie Seismic Systems Technologist Pacific Northwest Seismograph Network University of Washington Earth and Space Sciences (206) 543-8276 les@ess.washington.edu www.pnsn.org
There is this thing I wrote, called the NAA (network authentication appliance) http://www.freebsd.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Freebsd/NetworkAuthenticationApp liance To my knowledge nobody outside of our site uses it. But we use it for all all wireless access at the University of Waterloo. It also supports this thing I wrote called the "Toilet Tank Traffic Shaper" http://www.freebsd.uwaterloo.ca/twiki/bin/view/Freebsd/ToiletTankTrafficShaper which is handy to keep the dvd downloaders in check. Installation of the NAA is not yet at the "make; make install" stage. Rather "do all these steps, think, do some more, test, hmm, fix this, call the developer, ok it's almost working now". So, you are welcome to contact me if you try the NAA, and get stuck. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: WIFI access software Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 21:00:54 -0800 From: Jeff Seeman <jeff@olymail.net> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org I have a client who has 3 restaurants and wants to provide wifi access to the customers. He wants to be able to control who and when it can be accessed. He is not planning on charging for the access at the moment but certainly would like that ability. I want to use freebsd, but can not find a software pkg that will allow me to do this. Does anyone have an idea or better yet implemented something like this? Thanks in advance, Jeff -- Bruce Campbell Manager, Science Computing C2-260 University of Waterloo (519)888-4567 ext 6991 ---------------------------------------- This mail sent through www.mywaterloo.ca
Jeff Seeman wrote:> I have a client who has 3 restaurants and wants to provide wifi access > to the customers. He wants to be able to control who and when it can be > accessed. He is not planning on charging for the access at the moment > but certainly would like that ability. I want to use freebsd, but can > not find a software pkg that will allow me to do this. Does anyone have > an idea or better yet implemented something like this?If you don't absolutely have to use FreeBSD there are a number of hacks to wifi routers that will do what you want. The Linksys series seems to be the most popular. Google for things like HyperWRT, OpenWRT, eWRT, DD-WRT, Sveasoft (they're getting evil though). I think DD-WRT uses chillispot that someone else mentioned.