On May 12, 2005, at 3:48 PM, Erik Anderson wrote: > I know this has been discussed a bit in the past here, but I couldn't > find very many opinions/gotchas/recommendations/etc on them. > So...I'll bring it up again. > > I'm looking to set up a nocat-esque captive proxy system for our > wireless access points here at work. Has anyone set up systems like > this in the past? If so, did you implement nocat? Some other system? > >> From my research, there seem to be two major contenders in the OSS >> market: > > NoCatAuth (http://nocat.net) > and > ChiliSpot (http://www.chillispot.org) > > Any others I should be evaluating? I guess my only requirements are > that 1) users authenticate via a webpage and 2) either radius or > OpenLDAP can be used as the auth backend. I haven't started playing > around yet with these systems...I'm just trying to do a bit of > homework before I dive in. > i've configured the nocat captive portal in the past for my home hotspot. last i checked, it had a variety of authentication mechanisms available to it. i haven't configured it in ages but i don't recall it being particularly onerous. if you're looking for a good support community the nocat list seems to have a reasonable amount of activity. i can't speak to the chilispot stuff at all. sorry. -- steve ulrich sulrich at botwerks.org PGP: 8D0B 0EE9 E700 A6CF ABA7 AE5F 4FD4 07C9 133B FAFC