On Nov 6, 2006, at 1:07 PM, Richard Davis wrote:
I have a client that wants to use PFSense as an AP/captive
portal-hotspot radio. His network model is to bring a DSL to the
AP and
use the radius/captive portal part of PFSense. Once the user has been
authorized the traffic would be routed to the internet via the
DSL. Any
suggestions for the backoffice software package? The software
must be
able to login existing customers and sign new ones up (credit
cards/PayPal) via web pages. We are designing the network to work
like
this so we can add/remove AP's as business demands. The billing would
be centralized at a high bandwidth server farm.
PFSense is the best AP/router system we could find but we need to have
an "all in one billing/radius/credit card/web-captive portal"
package to
complement it. Any suggestions for the backend software package?
Richard Davis
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Director of Product Development
Business Systems Connection Inc.
9357 Watson Industrial Park
St Louis MO 63126
local: 314-918-7526
Toll Free: 877-271-9484
cell: 314-602-1326
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www.bizsyscon.com
Not sure how much PHP you know or what PHP devs you have on hand,
but there are documented methods of doing credit card transactions
with PHP on the PHP site <http://php.net>. If you setup the login
forms for captiveportal so the page redirects to the billing page, if
the billing page is ok'ed, add a temporary Radius account according
to how much money the person paid and what your going rate is, and
let them have access to your DSL setup. Otherwise, redirect to a
"sorry, you cannot access network" page, and don't punch a hole
through the firewall for the client.
-Garrett
