Use this page as a "cheatsheet" of sorts :
http://www.airpath.com/Products/wiboss_lite/compat.htmAirpath is a back-end provider for hotspot services, so they list a bunch of compliant devices to use with their service. This means that these devices have valid radius clients, and therefore should play nicely with FreeRadius.
cheap and easy side: check out the D-Link DL-3800. minimal features, easy to set-up. requires seperate wireless AP.
cheap, yet full featured - harder to config if you aren't technical: check out Mikrotik Router OS.
Hope this helps.
-Rob
PS: nice tag line, very appropos for people in our business...
At 03:49 PM 12/11/2003 -0700, you wrote:
Since many of the people on this list talk about wireless systems, I thought I could ask for some assistance.
I have a customer with a chain of small restaurants, that want to provide wireless connections for his customers.
I am looking for an inexpensive secure solution.
I have heard people talking about 'walled gardens', and that may be the way to go.
I have been asked about the d-link and linksys wireless routers, but have no experience with them. To date I have only had experience with long haul wireless, campus wireless and wired solutions.
I don't have a firm direction from the customer yet, but there will be dozens of restaurants that will need to be hooked up.
I am guessing that I could somehow use FreeRadius to provide centralized access controls.
One of the prerequisites will likely be that there are NO moving parts {ie. no hard drives} on any of the devices and low power consumption {no large servers or monitors} in the restaurants. If required, the traffic could be backhauled to a centralized location over vpn's.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
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