[Wifidog] Wifidog@Berlin

[Jan Dahl]

Hello Wifidogers,
Since a while i am tracking this project and now the time has come to make 
my fist own experience. That is because the need of protecting our Gateways 
become more and more important. Halve of our clients are personally known 
neighbors, friendly, who don't make trouble or even traffic on our lines 
(just eMail and www). The other halve are anonymous people who scan my 
network, litter my line with P2P traffic and do not react to contact 
approaches.

I am part of the Berlin WLan community. As you can see 
(http://www.nodedb.com/europe/de/berlin/?), we have some culminations of 
Hotspots in the former eastern part of the City. When the Wall came down our 
phone company put fiberwire to a big area of the new part. The phone system 
of the DDR was still the one from before second world war, 50 Years old and 
they didn't do much to enlarge it. So the phone company of the west, the 
unified one, put fiberwire to the streets. But, unfortunately, they used 
only ISDN connectors at the cable. So, some districts have only Phone and no 
possibility for broadband. What happen was that we did it on our own :)

As fare as i know, most off the AP are closed (encrypted) or completely 
unprotected to gather more clients. This is the reason of my initiative. I 
like to have my Hotspots unencrypted while keeping out anonymous people. 
After some investigation i choose wifidog for it is running on the Linksys 
routers which are popular in our community and because it have all the nice 
features i like to have.

So far to my story (sorry for my poor English).

Now to my first try. I installed client and sever, and, after some hassle, 
it seems to work. Great work Benoit and all of you, thank you.

Since i put the Authserver on a local machine for testing purposes, i 
ordered a vServer yesterday to give the whole community access to this 
service.

Now my some first question (and there will be a lot more for sure):

1. We like to give the Interface our own look. The wifidog-Logo (nice one!) 
and the Ile sans file will stay. Is that OK?
2. I prefer MySQL but can't find the DB-Schema. Are you planning to put it 
to CVS?
3. Are the Bandwith per class features still on the road map? Is there a 
time schedule for that (really burning for that)?




Greeting to Canada,




Jan Dahl


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