On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 4:08 PM, Corey Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 15:45 -0700, Carl Youngblood wrote: > > I am trying to find a good (hopefully free/low-price/easy) solution > > for rationing bandwidth on a per-user basis to a number of downstream > > wifi APs and wired clients, as well as caching downloads so that > > future requests can be served locally. NoCatSplash-type functionality > > would be a good plus too. But it needs to be in a single server, > > because I will be supporting user counts that are too large to do with > > individual APs, and I don't want to have to configure each AP > > separately, other than to configure its wifi settings. > > I recommend Mikrotik RouterOS. It's Linux based and has a ton of great > features. I'm sure you could use straight up Linux for all of it, but > the management with Mikrotik is great. My company uses their Router > Boards for access points and they're awesome. The one thing I can't tell > you is where we buy them from, as I'm not involved in that process. > > Corey
Ditto. RouterOS is a great solution. I use RouterBoard + RouterOS as my firewall. It can handle the traffic shaping, queues, the hotspot, use Radius auth, etc. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
