(RADIATOR) Idea for an app...

[Anton Krall]

Well. For the auth and page redirect part, Im very interested.

I have search for some software for this and havent been able to find
something I like so far.

We need some software for hotspots (wire or wireless) that when a user
plugs in, dhcp will assign an IP and then when the user opens up a ANY
web page, he will be asked for a username or code, and upon successful
auth, he will be granted access to the Internet for X amount of
minutes.. After that.. Internet is closed again and he has to insert
another username, code or buy more minutes..

Sounds like the idea Mike is working on?


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%-----Original Message-----
%From: Hugh Irvine [mailto:hugh at open.com.au] 
%Sent: Lunes, 06 de Enero de 2003 10:02 p.m.
%To: Anton Krall; mikem at open.com.au
%Cc: radiator at open.com.au
%Subject: Re: (RADIATOR) Idea for an app...
%
%
%
%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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