Open Source HotSpot Software

I am looking to try and sell a better way of managing the wi-fi where I live (in a marina) to the marina manager,

Currently he has a standard wi-fi hotspot sat just on the inside of his office wall.

I have been looking at http://www.antamedia.com/hotspot/ however it is prohibitively expensive (an most of the interesting feathers are in the “enterprise” package)

I would be looking for something I can install on a micro ITX with two NIC cards (such as http://www.mini-itx.com/store/?c=47#JNF99-525).

Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
Ability to block everything on this list: https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/
Ability to traffic shape (ie throttle/drop torrents)
Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.
most of the features from the hotspot software
payment via paypal

I would like to be able to run the membership database off site, so multiple sites can be linked together, allowing for roaming between sites.

Does any one have any thoughts, or ideas relating to this?

Regards

Skippy

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Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
Ability to block everything on this list:
https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/
Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.

These two are pretty easy with squid and suqidGuard and a simple firewall
rule. Do make sure to publish to proxy address as well though as not
everything plays nice with transparent proxies.

If you needs configs I can come up with something.
I can’t help on the rest though i’m afraid.

Kimball (drrk)

Have a look at http://www.chillispot.infohttp://www.chillispot.info/features.html
there used to be several projects which had a wi-fi system as a livecd
image, however all these projects seem to be dead (e.g.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZoneCD).

Seem to have been replaced with commercial providers such as
http://polkaspots.com/ with freemium options.

If you want to roll your own you are going to need the access system, a
central radius server (can be driven by mysql) and some kind of traffic
filtering / management setup.

Hope that helps.

Jonty.On 6 November 2012 11:31, Kimball Johnson kimball@bowerham.net wrote:

Ideally the software solution would have the following specification
Ability to block everything on this list:
https://easylist.adblockplus.org/en/
Transparent Proxy and Caching port 80.

These two are pretty easy with squid and suqidGuard and a simple firewall
rule. Do make sure to publish to proxy address as well though as not
everything plays nice with transparent proxies.

If you needs configs I can come up with something.
I can’t help on the rest though i’m afraid.

Kimball (drrk)


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