(RADIATOR) Idea for an app...

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Anton -

1. Our Radmin product will already do most of what you describe.

	www.open.com.au/radmin

2. You would need the usual twisted-pair ethernet hub or switch and 
some Cat-5 cabling, together with one or more 802.11x wireless access 
points. You would also need some sort of server machine (probably a PC 
running some version of Linux/xxxBSD) and some sort of connection to 
the internet. Finally you would need some magic software to redirect 
the http requests to the login page when a user starts up a session.

For this last point, Mike has recently been working on some redirection 
software for exactly this purpose.

I have copied Mike on this mail and he may have some additional 
comments.

regards

Hugh


On Tuesday, Jan 7, 2003, at 13:45 Australia/Melbourne, Anton Krall 
wrote:

> Guys... I have an idea and I need some help figuring out the specs.
>
> 1. A client of mine just called to ask for a quote for a software
> developed inhouse that’s intended for an internet café. The software 
> has
> this specs:
>
> - Install a linux machine with php, mysql, and radiator
> - Make some php pages for an admin system that can create serial 
> numbers
> (instead of usernames, the serials are for prepaid cards), passwords 
> and
> assign minutes to the cards.
> - Make the php pages that can let the users review how many minutes 
> they
> have left on the serial/prepaid card they bought
> - Configure radiator to auth against the mysql db with serials and 
> limit
> access to X amount of minutes depending on the prepaid card they 
> bought.
>
> How much would somebody charge for coding this kind of app? I need an
> estimate on how to charge my client for this.
>
> 2. This is a tech question.
>
> What would you need to implement an internet café with 
> wireless/ethernet
> adaptors and create a LAN, so that when a user plugs their laptop to 
> the
> eth port or turns on their WiFi cards, they are assigned an IP and
> everything else via DHCP and then when they try to use HTTP, FTP or any
> kind of internet access, they are psented with a popup asking for a
> username and password?
>
> This username and password would interact against a radiator server 
> like
> the one mentioned on step 1.
>
> What kind of configuration, hardware is needed for such an
> implementation?
>
> Thx for any ideas you can provide.
>
>
> __________________________________________________________________
> Anton Krall
>
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