Hey Kris,
I have one more for you. www.locustworld.net It is a mesh based
network that offers qos, and security. I have it running in a test
enviroment and seems to be doing pretty good.
For home use it is fine as that would be your application.
Raj
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Sent: Monday, August 11, 2003 10:59 PM
To: Kris Linquist
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Subject: Re: [BAWUG] Free wireless to my neighbors
Kris Linquist wrote:
>(If you got this msg twice, I apologize)
>
>BAWUGheads,
>
>I want to offer free wireless to my neighbors. Before I start asking what
>kind of antennas and such I should get, I'd like to know if there is any
>software that will do what I'd like:
>
>1) Firewall the connection, blocking all incoming unsolicited traffic
>
>2) Throttle the bandwitdh
>
>3) Offer a splash page that you must click through prior to all of the
>outgoing ports opening up (such as what you get at Waypoint/TMobile/etc
>hotspots now). I could require someone to do this every ..say.. 7 days
>(tracked by MAC address of course). This splash page would have
>information on the wireless network, my contact information, a paypal
>donation button, and a "please obey these terms of service or you will be
>blocked".
>
>Is there any software out there for any OS (I could scrounge up an old PC
>to route the connection through) that could let me easily do the above?
>I understand that I could do 1&2 with ipchains... how about #3?
>
>Thanks!
>-Kris
>
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Kris,
I'd suggest NoCat from http://nocat.net/ . It supports 1), 2) and 3).
You could run it in open mode, which will do the splash page thing.
Another useful reference for nocat in a small distro is Pebble at
http://www.nycwireless.net/pebble/
Sameer
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