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

[Stephen Ronan]

I understand the Chicago wifi group is using/adapting the WiFi hotspot 
software offered by the Austin folks
http://www.lessnetworks.com/
I imagine that Rich MacKinnon (rich at lessnetworks.com), who attended the 
wireless summit last summer at UIUC would be glad to answer questions 
about it.

  - Steve

Quantum Scientific wrote:

>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
>>
>>    
>>
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