[BNM] Best linksys firmware for captive portal with configural QoS per connecting client?

[Dave Phelan]

Jay,

On 10/1/06, Jay Gooby <jay at gooby.org> wrote:
> I've happily been running the public version of Sveasoft's Alchemy
> firmware for my two WRT54Gs for over a year; I use WDS to wirelessly
> bridge them and I also deliberately leave them open for my neighbors
> to use.
>
> However, I've started to get traffic that's hammering both the latency
> and bandwidth on my connection; I'd like to put a captive portal page
> on so they know they're using my bandwidth and I'm happy for that to
> happen, but I'd also like the ability to throttle bandwidth on the
> public connections, whilst giving my internal machines no
> restrictions.
>
> Any suggestions for the firmware du jour? It must have VPN access,
> WDS, ssh, and my not-incosiderate demands above :)

OpenWRT is piertopier.net's WRT distro of choice. It's debian-ish, the
Itsy package manager (ipkg) rather than dpkg and apt, but similar
enough.

You can run nocatsplash on it as a captive portal (I have a package)
but it's a little flakey. We use chilispot, which works like a dream.
But chilispot needs a back-end radius server for authentication (even
guest auth, AFAIR).

When you say VPN support, you mean IPsec/PPTP passthrough the NAT,
rather than IPsec/PPTP termination? Either way, you can do both on
OpenWRT with the right packages/config.

We throttle guest users via chillispot, or at least, I think we do. I
can't recall how far that went. We certainly log them out after 2
hours, which kicks those all night p2p-leeching sessions in the teeth
:-)

ssh and WDS are there out of the box on OpenWRT. We use whiterussian
RC5, rather than the experimental branch.

Happy to offer further assistance. Or maybe you'd like to be a
piertopier.net node? You can get you MAC addresses excluded from the
captive portal as a node owner.

HTH
Dave Ph
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