[CUWiN-Dev] [CUWiN] Tips to contribute?

[Quantum Scientific]

I believe there's a need to evaluate captive authentication portals and 
summarize their characteristics into a table so devs can select one.

Among the candidates (in alphabetical order) are:

ChilliSpot - Rather large, but considered by many to be the best open-source 
captive portal.  Requires a RADIUS server.
http://www.chillispot.org/

NoCatAuth/Splash - Recently ported to C so good for embedded, but needs 
additionally perl(!), GnuPG, OpenSSL, RADIUS.
http://nocat.net/

WiFi Dog - Optional centralized access control, full bandwidth accounting, 
node heartbeating and local content specific to each hotspot.  Does not rely 
on a javascript window, so works with any platform with a web browser, 
including PDAs and cellphones.  Install can be as little as 30kB.
http://www.ilesansfil.org/wiki/WiFiDog

And someone suggested IPCop, but this just looks like a firewall to me, and 
would take some time (which nobody has) to make a captive portal:
http://www.ipcop.org/

I do not know the maturities of these projects (whether non-buggy) nor their 
vitality (freq/recency of updates), and I do not know which (if any) support 
IPV6 and VOIP.  I believe Asterisk is a cinch for the VOIP server.  Devs 
correct me if I'm wrong.

Best,

Carl Cook



On Wednesday 16 March 2005 8:22, Sascha Meinrath wrote:
> could someone drop a line to Kashyap?
> 
> also, do we have a general intro letter?  chase, i remember you were our 
> "official" point of contact -- do we have a general "here's how you can 
> help... let me know if you're interested" sort of letter?
> 
> --sascha
>