Greetings, I am a general IT consultant. One of my clients was talking about nice things they could do for the community and idea of making themselves a public hotspot came up. Since they are across the street from a park and within a block of a Peets and Starbucks this seems like a good idea.
They already have a stack of Aironet equipment sitting around (from when they did 802.11 bridging between buildings) and a pair of lightly used T1s. All the equipment is there. The access would be free so there is no need for accounting. I just want a quick portal with a TOS and some text giving credit to the company. My concern is protecting the internet from their anonymous users, if they decide to go forward. The system would barely be monitored (they don't have an IT staff) and a spammer could do a lot of mischief before being noticed. I like the ideas for a active portal outlined at <http://www.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/ActivePortal> but I can't find anyone that has implemented them. My unix skills are purely user level. I can't do this myself. Is there anyone who has put together a package? So for my web searches have not been successful. Maybe I don't know the vocabulary. Can anyone point me in the right direction? I want a gateway device that would monitor for inappropriate activity (spam, DOS, obvious cracking) and block the user. Obviously a public wireless network is not going to be completely secure but I want to raise the bar a little for the bad guys. Thanks in advance, Dan _______________________________________________ BAWUG's general wireless chat mailing list [unsubscribe] http://lists.bawug.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless
