I do not want to try to develop PHP pages. This would give me the flexibility that I need but my client's project is way too small to start building web pages and control systems. Hopefully there is a software package already built that has the features that my client needs.
I'm looking into packages like: http://www.patronsoft.com/ http://www.antamedia.com/ and hoped that someone else might share their experience. Boingo is one way to go but I would like to have a system that was complete and not dependent on another remote company. Thanks for the suggestion. I will look into it. -----Original Message----- From: Curtis Maurand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 07, 2006 10:36 AM To: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: RE: [pfSense-discussion] Hotspot accounting software Its built into some Linksys wireless gateways. Of course you have to sign up with Boingo. -----Original Message----- From: tunge2 [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 11/7/2006 6:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [pfSense-discussion] Hotspot accounting software this could be a great feature!!!!!!!!! -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: Garrett Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Verzonden: dinsdag 7 november 2006 0:28 Aan: [email protected] Onderwerp: Re: [pfSense-discussion] Hotspot accounting software 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 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 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 > Fax: 314-918-7527 > 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
