Thanks to all of you for your responses. I'm especially interested in what you've done at Beehive Baltimore, Dave. I can't wait to poke around in that Rails code and see what you've got going on.
Best, Lance On Apr 4, 2:26 pm, Dave Troy <[email protected]> wrote: > We looked at doing a captive portal, but I wasn't thrilled with the > choices available, and didn't like the idea of having to couple > network management with the more basic task of usage tracking. > > What we settled on instead is a simple system that examines the > network for DHCP leases and ARP entries and records the comings and > goings of our community members. > > On first use, members are asked to map their hardware MAC address to > their email address. This is then visualized with a Gravatar on our > network status page. > > Our network is open and doesn't put any barriers to people walking in, > sitting down, and getting work done. Whenever they show up with their > devices, we know they were there and can bill accordingly. > > This also has the side effect of creating a live display of who is in > the space (complete with Gravatars). You can see ours > athttp://hive.beehivebaltimore.org(though no one is there right now). > > I've written this app as a Rails application which you are free to > fork and modify. Ultimately we will run our billing through here but I > haven't had time to do that yet. > > It's called Honeycomb and it's > here:http://github.com/davetroy/honeycomb/tree/master > > We assume that the ISC DHCP server is installed on the box where the > app is running, but it would honestly run just as well relying simply > on nmap and arp. > > Ping me if you have questions. I'd love to see this developed > further. In my opinion this approach is more in line with the spirit > of coworking -- respect, simplicity, ease of use -- than having to > require a bunch of passwords, port 80 authentications, etc. YMMV. > > Dave > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Coworking" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/coworking?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
