Ryan Fergerson wrote: > What I'm trying to accomplish is the capability to allow or deny access > to a WiFi hotspot, remotely. At the moment, my ubuntu server is local > (connected to the router that has internet access). I have a VPS but I'm > not entirely sure how to go about configuring it. I'm no stranger to > software engineering but I've just started getting in-depth with > networking so I'm not completely sure of which technologies I'd need or > if what I'm trying to do is possible. > The network configuration that I had in mind consists of a cable > modem(with internet access) connected to a router (with dd-wrt firmware) > which then broadcasts some arbitrary SSID. Clients would then connect to > the router wirelessly then somehow be routed to my VPS which accepts or > denies access to the internet (?). > Authorization is the only aspect that I'm interested in my VPS doing > because of bandwidth restrictions. If it's possible to allow a client to > use the local routers access to the internet once access has been > granted by my VPS then that would be great (and cheaper).
I'm not 100% sure what you're looking for as a response. The short and simple answer is that this sort of setup should work. The only piece I'm not sure of is how you'll deal with unregistered users on the dd-wrt side. In a typical packetfence setup, there are multiple networks in use. Unregistered users are put in the registration network which only allows access to packetfence. Once registered, they're placed into a network matching their role. Purely speculating, I think what you can do is create a vlan on the dd-wrt system that goes nowhere, but is nat'ed to allow access to the packetfence box. And then when the user is registered, put them into the public network. I'm not entirely sure how to do that in dd-wrt, though. So in theory, it should be possible. And the location of the packetfence server should be irrelevant. As long as packetfence can get to the dd-wrt system, you're golden. > My VPS is running Ubuntu 12.04 has one interface and the NAC that I've > been using is called PacketFence (which is installed but not > configured). Please let me know if more information is needed about the > modem, router, or server. > > Any help is greatly appreciated! Thanks in advance. -- --------------------------- Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold [email protected] --------------------------- "Any sufficiently advanced magic is indistinguishable from technology.\" - Niven's Inverse of Clarke's Third Law ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Get your SQL database under version control now! Version control is standard for application code, but databases havent caught up. So what steps can you take to put your SQL databases under version control? Why should you start doing it? Read more to find out. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=49501711&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
