[Leaplist] wifi hotspot

[Phil Barnett]

On Sunday 05 August 2007, mike at areallylongdomain.com wrote:
> Hey guys,
>
>   I want to build a hotspot that requires user authentication. I was
> reading up and from what I understand they are called "captive portals."
> I'm not sure if that's really what they're called or not. I read that
> they can be built using IPCop, m0n0wall, etc. for the routing. I'm still
> googling... So many people just want to sell a modded Linksys WRT54G
> rather than tell you how.
>
> I would REALLY like to start an OSS project for this and maybe get it up
> on SourceForge or something. Anyone interested in helping me out? If
> anyone has any ideas, I know HTML/XHTML, JavaScript, Perl, PHP and SQL. I
> figure I should be able to make something! Has anyone else done it?
>
> Perhaps this could even be used for the project going on over at the
> church, if we could get it to work!

This might be what you are looking for...

http://www.ban-solms.de/t/IPCop-copspot.html

-- 
Phil Barnett
AI4OF
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