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

[Jay Gooby]

On 10/2/06, Dave Phelan <dave.phelan at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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?

Termination, was what I meant.

> Either way, you can do both on
> OpenWRT with the right packages/config.

Brill :)

> 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
> :-)

Heh.

> 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.

I guess I'd happily be a node; does it matter that I'm orphaned or
would there be some extra set-up required?

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