Re: Nocat List

We too are "calling last orders" on our Nocat network of about 50 APs (first
Soekris then WRAP2.C boards)
It's been a fantastic ride and we're hugely greatful to Schuyler.
I plan to stay on this list until it finally burns out.

Rgds


On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 1:01 PM, Arun Chatterjee <[email protected]>wrote:

> Thanks, guys. At Less Networks, we started installing nocat hotspots in
> Sept of 2003 and still have 78 nocat hotspots active. Our new hotspots are
> wifidog-based. But every now and then (like last week), a venue replaced its
> aging nocat hotspot with another new nocat one.
>
> -arun
> Less Networks
>
>
> Rob Flickenger wrote:
>
>  Sameer Verma wrote:
>>
>>
>>> NoCat seems like it was so long ago. I had no gray hair and could pull
>>> an all-nighter.
>>>
>>>
>> The first alpha of NoCatAuth was released on 12-Jul-2001. At the time,
>> we didn't know of any other open source portal implementation. Schuyler
>> became motivated at OSCon that year to put something together when I
>> threatened to write some (likely very dodgy) perl code myself. Back
>> then, "WiFi" didn't yet exist and the only practical way to get wireless
>> into a laptop was to use a Lucent card.
>>
>> It has been a fascinating 7.5 years. I have developed my own grey hair
>> since then (falling off the roof in 2002 didn't help with that ;) I've
>> written or edited more than a dozen books since then. My interest in the
>> code has long since died, given the availability of much more capable
>> and active projects like WiFiDog and Chillispot.
>>
>> I now spend a lot of my time teaching long-distance wireless techniques
>> (including Pringles cans!) to folks from the developing world. A lot of
>> that is documented in Wireless Networking in the Developing World
>> (http://wndw.net/).
>>
>> This list is still here out of sheer habit. It currently has 755 members.
>>
>> Wow.
>>
>> We'll probably keep the light on until this list server falls over.
>>
>> Thank you all for your support and well wishes over the years!
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> --Rob
>>
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