[pfSense-discussion] Hotspot accounting software
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
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
[pfSense-discussion] Dual Pfsense setup 1 Network
My company has adjusted their setup from what we originallyinstalled. We setup a Dual WAN with failover configuration using pfsense. It worked very nicely. However, now they are looking at placing both in a single state setup. We are looking at setting up one pfsense system with each broadband connection. What I need to know is what is the best way to go about this internally? I am looking at setting up something similar to this. PF1 = interal IP 172.16.21.1 -- PF2 = internal IP 172.16.22.1 | | 172.16.21.2RouterIP 172.16.22.2 | | internal LANIP 192.168.21.1internal VOIPIP 192.168.22.1 | | LAN VOIP LAN I don't have a router running yet, but we are basically looking for the best way to set this up. There will be VPN access from both PF1 and PF2 internally to the LAN and VOIP networks. Nothing will sit in a DMZ, so I am basically looking at point to point. I need to have something internally which I can deal with failover and route all of my traffic through an external link which is good if the other is down. I am guessing I am going to need a decent router for this setup? Any suggestions would be welcome. -- Heath Henderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1800 288 7750 --
