On Monday, October 1, 2018 at 11:52:00 AM UTC+2, Carlo Cangiotti wrote: > > Hi Federico, > I ask for an advice on what type of access point I need to use (brand and > model .. I had a recommendation for Lyncsys or Ubiquiti... what do you > think?). We have thick walls in a building and normal walls in other > buildings (two types of different access points?) >
Yes, those work well. > The second question is if all access points must have openwrt or just one > master and the other slaves can be normal access points with proprietary > firmware. > In order to have their configuration managed by OpenWISP, at this moment they need to be OpenWRT based. If you leave the original firmware at the moment the maximum you can do is to place them on the outdoor and indoor maps. > So I need this configuration to implement the system(?): > - Linux server where OpenWisp is installed with the various modules > (django-freeradius, PfSense) and mysql server > Yes, but you could also use coova-chilli as captive portal running on the OpenWRT devices directly, that would allow you to avoid having to centralize the traffic to a single PfSense instance (you would need a VPN if you want to host this PfSense on ther internet, which would make things slow, if you run PfSense in your hotel it's fine but I don't suggest to run the OpenWISP server and the captive page in your hotel because otherwise you wouldn't be able to get a valid SSL certificate easily if your hotel does not have public IP addresses and that's not good for your users). > - Access point with OpenWRT firmware (need some additional module?) > Yes, it's documented here: http://openwisp.io/docs/user/configure-device.html Fed -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "OpenWISP" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
