> Never seen any ready made cyber_cafe billing systems so far. > Hardware and software configs at all cafes vary so drastically > that no ready-made package would suit.
I dont think there should be problem. I mean if a cyber cafe is running on linux chances are great in number that it is running on squid and iptables / ipchains. > > What is your configuration like (viz. No of boxes, OSs, conne- > ctivity etc) ? You need to write your own ... Can give a rough > idea about the approach if we know the kind of set up that we > need to address. Anyways, I have cyber cafe of 30 machines ( windows clients) and a linux server RedHat 7.2 enigma. I am using squid + iptables and djbdns as dns server. As far as i find out, i want to dynamically creat rules for iptables which can enable/disable access from perticular ip for perticular time. I am doing some r&d with perl if it can do it. dont want to use php interface, instead i will use some application server like apache + tomcat and servlets at client side. So what i am planning is, 1) admin will give user a username and password , which will be valid for perticular time period say 1 hr. 2)user will go to perticular terminal. by default iptables has disabled the access to net. 3)user will browse for http://192.168.1.1/billing and will be provided a form. 4) he will enter username and password and this will enable access of that terminal for already decided time period. 5)after 1hr, iptable will disconnect the server from net. ( drop packets at gateway from this ip). So 1)firewalling will be done by iptables. 2)caching will be done by transperent squid proxy. Your inputs are most welcome. --kunal ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Stuff, things, and much much more. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
