[isf-wifidog] WifiDog .. migration from Nocat

[Dana Spiegel]

Our page is here:

http://www.nycwireless.net/tiki-index.php?page=WifiDog

Not complete by any stretch of the imagination, but a start. We're  
also working on instructions for pebble installation.

Dana Spiegel
Executive Director
NYCwireless
dana at NYCwireless.net
www.NYCwireless.net
+1 917 402 0422

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On Oct 16, 2005, at 6:06 PM, Benoit Grégoire wrote:

> On October 16, 2005 05:47 pm, Alan Dawson wrote:
>
>> Hi..
>>
>> I've been introduced to wifidog at the WSFII event in London  
>> recently.
>>
>> Are there any implementation docs, HowTO's, Whitepapers, or  
>> examples out
>> there ?
>>
>
> NYC wireless started something, I can't find the link at the  
> moment, you can
> look at the archives.  We have various docs available on the old  
> wiki, but
> they sorely need updating.  (It's part of the 1.0 release effort).   
> However,
> the installer should help your along.
>
>
>> We have a small wireless network in the UK, http:// 
>> bcan.burngreave.net,
>> currently based on NYC's pebble linux.
>>
>> Many of the nodes are linked together using WDS links.  Nocat is  
>> used on
>> the gateway hotspots without ( not all hotspots have a direct  
>> uplink to the
>> internet but get external access across a WDS link ) without MAC  
>> address
>> authentication ( ie with IgnoreMAC 1 ).
>>
>
> The WDS link should not adversely affect wifidog operations.   
> However, if you
> want to keep the same setup, only the WRT that id connected to the  
> uplink
> should have the wifidog gateway running on it.
>
>
>> The authentication is done against a flat file ( in
>> /usr/local/nocat/etc/passwd)
>>
>
> Wifidog has an importer for that file.  However, I am not sure it's  
> not been
> trivially broken by recent changes in the code.  If you run into  
> any trouble
> importing your nocat passwd file, chip in on the list immediately.
>
>
>> We're moving from pebble based AP's to the WRT54GS  ( its cheap  
>> and runs
>> linux ).  To remove the need to have a seperate PC doing Nocat at  
>> gateways
>> we'd like to run wifidog on them.  I presume it allows  
>> authenticated access
>> ( and not just a splash like nocatsplash ?)
>>
>
> Yes it does, and a whole lot more ;)
>
> -- 
> Benoit Grégoire, http://benoitg.coeus.ca/
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