[isf-wifidog] WifiDog Implimentation

[Proulx François]

Hi Chris,

The Wifidog gateway has been tuned for running on embedded devices  
such as the Linksys WRT54g (it works beautifully on top of OpenWRt, a  
Linux distribution for the Linksys box). So the WRT54g is configured  
in such a way that we create three interfaces : WiFi which is  
monitored by WiFidog, LAN ports which we leave open for plain wired  
connectivity and WAN port for connecting to the backbone. This is the  
typical configuration we use in Montreal, but you might decide to  
bridge interfaces so that WiFidog can listen to wired port as well.

You can download our special OpenWRT firmware for the WRT54g here   
(works for WRT54G up to version 4 or any WRT54GL)
http://ilesansfil.org/dist/install/openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin

Of course, the gateway could be installed on any Linux box, but it's  
much more convenient and practical in an embedded device. Then  
there's the authentication server which requires an Apache, PHP5,  
Postgresql install...

Hope that answers some of your questions.


On 6-Dec-2005, at 6:32 , Rowson Christopher wrote:

> Greetings all,
>
> My name is Chris, and I am looking at building a captive portal  
> wireless network for a library service in the UK.
>
> Initially I looked at the nocat project, but found WifiDog and was  
> very impressed at the cms based info service which would provide a  
> great location based news service for our users.
>
> I wonder if anyone could point me towards a good source of  
> documentation for WifiDog to help me along with the project.  Like  
> many open source projects WifiDog is truly innovative, but is  
> perhaps lacking on the documentation front.
>
> I seem to have had a little difficulty in finding some  
> comprehensive setup instructions for the gateway device, and was  
> wondering if setting it up is a little like setting up the nocat  
> gateway.  I imagine that I require two network cards; One connected  
> to the LAN to provide internet connection and to see the auth  
> server, and the other to connect onto a wireless access point.
>
> I know it's always a pain in the bottom to answer the basic  
> questions like this, but any help you could offer me at all would  
> be greatly appreciated.  Our project hopes to provide free internet  
> access on a not for profit basis, and I hope that WifiDog will do  
> this admirably.
>
>
> Thanks
>
> Chris
>
>
>
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