[isf-wifidog] WiFiDog - Do I Have To Hack the Access Point?

[Bryan Gawronski]

Good afternoon,

I am interested in the features WiFiDog offers but I have a bit of a different setup.  Can you please tell me if WiFiDog will function with this setup.

We are looking to put 40 - 60 access points down a busy street in Buffalo, NY.  The access points will talk with a single access point back at the base station and then be routed through a captive portal (WiFiDog?) to the internet.  A few access points will connect back to a local store or museum it is attached to in order to use bandwidth at that location.  What we hope to accomplish is have a single WiFi network with three of four different captive portal gateways that all talk to a single user database.  We need to authenticate users, throttle bandwidth, and do some content filtering.
We will not be able to hack our access points as the vendor is donating them and supporting them (I don't think they would be happy to find OpenWRT).  Can I run WiFiDog on Red Hat Linux machines as a captive portal and leave the access points alone and still get the functions?  In order to make WiFiDog work must you hack the access point?  I understand that hacking the access point removes the need for a Linux server but with 40 - 60 access points I don't mind have a few Linux boxes sitting around.

Thank you for your time.

Bryan Gawronski
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