[MLB-WIRELESS] HotSpot Setup

[Nick Selemidis]

Is there anyone who can help me build a box running with chillispot on a 
debian with freradius and ispconfig on it aswell.

Any help would be much apreciated and I quess I could give $100 for driving 
all the way to bundoora.

Nick Selemidis
"Craig Sanders" <cas at taz.net.au> wrote in message 
news:mailman.22.1176703461.1611.melbwireless at wireless.org.au...
> On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 03:39:35PM +1000, gregsonm at aanet.com.au wrote:
>> I am interested in setting up a hotspot that is easy to setup and uses 
>> off
>> the shelf hardware/software.
>>
>> The HotSpot must have security so that people must have authorisation to
>> use it, either via a ticket/token or password.
>>
>> Does anyone out there have any suggestions on how this can be done?
>
> haven't used it myself yet (am planning to trial it this weekend if i get
> time), but you might want to have a look at chillispot.
>
> http://www.chillispot.org/
>
> from the web site:
>
>    "ChilliSpot is an open source captive portal or wireless LAN access
>     point controller. It is used for authenticating users of a wireless
>     LAN. It supports web based login which is today's standard for
>     public HotSpots. Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA)
>     is handled by your favorite radius server.
>
>     Binary downloads are available for Redhat, Febora, Debian, Mandrake
>     and OpenWRT. ChilliSpot is an ebuild in Gentoo and compiles under
>     FreeBSD. Source code under GPL is available for other platforms.
>
>     To build your own HotSpot you need the following items:
>
>         * Internet connection
>         * Wireless LAN access point
>         * ChilliSpot software for your PC
>         * Radius server
>         * Web server"
>
> and:
>
>     "It supports two authentication methods:
>
>         * Universal Access Method (UAM)
>         * Wireless Protected Access (WPA)
>
>     With UAM the wireless client requests an IP address, and is
>     allocated a an IP address by Chilli. When the user starts a web
>     browser chilli will capture the tcp connection and redirect to
>     browser to an authentication web server. The web server queries the
>     user for his username and password. The password is encrypted and
>     sent back to chilli.
>
>     With WPA authentication is handled by the access point, and
>     subsequently forwarded from the access point to chilli.  If WPA
>     is used the connection between the access point and the client is
>     encrypted.
>
>     For both UAM and WPA chilli forwards the authentication request to
>     a radius server. The radius server sends an access-accept message
>     back to chilli if authentication was successful. Otherwise an
>     access-reject is sent back."
>
>
>
>
> my wireless AP is a laptop running debian (linux 2.6.20 with hostap
> drivers, senao 200mW card connected to an 8dbi omni on a 12m mast on
> roof), so getting it all working should be fairly easy.
>
> craig
>
> -- 
> craig sanders <cas at taz.net.au>
>
> ps: anyone in inner-north region who can see my node
> (cja.wireless.org.au) is welcome to use my debian 'sid' mirror. see
> http://surya.taz.net.au/ for more info. mirror is updated daily
> direct from ftp.us.debian.org, which is better than you can say for
> other australian mirrors, including ftp.au.debian.org
>
> unfortunately, i'm at the bottom of the Merri Creek valley (Coburg, nr
> cnr of Bell St & Nicholson St), so even with a 12m mast on my roof, it's
> difficult for anyone to see my node.
>
>
> BOFH excuse #188:
>
> ..disk or the processor is on fire.