Re: Hotspot Billing

Frederic,

Can you describe how you loaded m0n0wall onto the Watchguard HW?
I may be able to get one of these units, so knowing the process would be 
very helpful!

Thanks,
Joe

On 02/26/2010 07:42 PM, Frederic J. Breitwieser wrote:
> Greetings,
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> I successfully got my m0m0wall working on Watchguard hardware, one port
> assigned as a "captive portal" and my EnGenius 600mw wifi AP's are plugged
> into that via a 10/100 switch.
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> If devices are in the approved MAC list they go right through bypassing the
> portal and devices that are not need to enter a username/password.
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> I have not experimented with FreeRadius and that's the next part of the
> project.  One of the things I'd like to do is turn this into a
> customer-facing hotspot, where I can accept credit cards for hourly and
> daily use.
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> Might any of you folks on this list done this using m0n0wall?  I've found
> several how-to's to do this with other things but I have to say I really,
> really like m0n0wall and would prefer, if possible, to keep using it for
> this purpose.
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> Any ideas welcomed, thanks!
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