Wireless hotspot

You want to setup a Hotspot (Wi-Fi) or a captive portal?

  • wireless.hotspot.nodogsplash Another alternative from NoCat which aims to offer captive portal solutions local to the router/gateway and a simplistic setup, user bandwidth control and basic auth/splash page. Nodogsplash is small, well tested, tailored for OpenWrt by its author and can be set up with only one or two config file changes, in contrast Chilli is more complete but complex to set up.
  • wireless.hotspot.nocatsplash NoCatSplash is the C port of NoCatAuth
  • wireless.hotspot.wifidog Originally forked from NoCatSplash and NoCatAuth,ran at layer3 using iptables as opposed to chillispots layer2 solutions. Wifidog offers a simple package and none uci based configuration file. Users can be managed and controlled through the gateway and hooked into any custom user management. This solution creates a custom central user management system. You can build your own login page and user management system or use their own portal system.
  • wireless.hotspot.chillispot Layer 2 solution using a radius database for the backend user management and tracking. WARNING: This project may be dead. There hasn't really been much work on this project for years. Which leads to the next project.
  • wireless.hotspot.coova-chilli Built on top of Chillispot with several improvements and additions. Includes WISPr support, and much more. Main captive portal solution used in CoovaAP.
  • wireless.hotspot.pepperspot Another Chillispot fork. Support for IPv6 protocol, Wireless Protected Access (WPA). Also radius server backend.

Package: chillispot
Version: 1.1.0-3
Depends: kmod-tun
Maintainer: OpenWrt Developers Team <openwrt-devel@openwrt.org>
Size: 65908
Source: feeds/packages/net/chillispot
Description: ChilliSpot is an open source captive portal or wireless LAN
 access point controller. It is used for authenticating users
 of a wireless LAN. It supports web based login which is today's
 standard for public HotSpots and it supports Wireless Protected
 Access (WPA) which is the standard of the future. Authentication,
 authorization and accounting (AAA) is handled by your favorite
 radius server.

Package: coova-chilli
Version: 1.2.8-1
Depends: kmod-tun, librt
Maintainer: OpenWrt Developers Team <openwrt-devel@openwrt.org>
Size: 205304
Source: feeds/packages/net/coova-chilli
Description: CoovaChilli is an open source access controller for wireless LAN
 access points and is based on ChilliSpot. It is used for authenticating
 users of a wireless (or wired) LAN. It supports web based login (UAM)
 which is today's standard for public HotSpots and it supports Wireless
 Protected Access (WPA) which is the standard of the future.
 Authentication,        authorization and accounting (AAA) is handled by your
 favorite radius server.

Package: pepperspot
Version: 0.3-1
Depends: kmod-tun, kmod-ipv6
Maintainer: OpenWrt Developers Team <openwrt-devel@openwrt.org>
Size: 73796
Source: feeds/packages/net/pepperspot
Description: PepperSpot is a captive portal or wireless LAN access point controller
 which support the IPv6 protocol. It supports web based login and it
 supports Wireless Protected Access (WPA). Authentication is handled by
 your favorite radius server (over IPv4/IPv6).

Some packages:

Package Version Depends Size Description
coova-chilli 1.2.5-1 kmod-tun, librt 208126 CoovaChilli is an access controller for WLAN APs and is based on ChilliSpot. It is used for authenticating users of a wireless (or wired) LAN. It supports web based login (UAM) which is today's standard for public HotSpots and it supports Wireless Protected Access (WPA). Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) is handled by your favorite radius server.
chillispot 1.1.0-3 kmod-tun 65946 ChilliSpot is a captive portal or WLAN APs controller. It is used for authenticating users of a wireless LAN. It supports web based login which is today's standard for public HotSpots and it supports Wireless Protected Access (WPA). Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) is handled by your favorite radius server.
wifidog 20090925-1 iptables-mod-extra, iptables-mod-ipopt, iptables-mod-nat, iptables-mod-nat-extra, libpthread 43511 The Wifidog project is a complete and embeddable captive portal solution for wireless community groups or individuals who wish to open a free Hotspot while still preventing abuse of their Internet connection.
nocatsplash 0.93pre2-2 glib1, iptables-mod-ipopt, iptables-mod-nat-extra 27808 NoCatSplash is an Open Public Network Gateway Daemon. It performs as a [captive/open/active] portal. When run on a gateway/router on a network, all web requests are redirected until the client either logs in or clicks "I Accept" to an AUP. The gateway daemon then changes the firewall rules on the gateway to pass traffic for that client (based on IP address and MAC address).
nodogsplash 0.9_beta9.9.6-1 libpthread, iptables-mod-ipopt 69086 NoDogSplash offers a simple way to open a free hotspot providing restricted access to an Internet connection. It is intended for use on wireless access points running OpenWrt (but may also work on other Linux-based devices).

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doc/howto/wireless.hotspot.txt · Last modified: 2013/03/24 16:58 by cheblin