Good to hear if you have any other questions please ask.  

We use a commercial product to do the billing side that does the credit card
authorizations and then if it passes makes the radius accounts then goes
back and deletes them when their time is up.  I had to customize their
software to do that but it all works fine now with the monowall 1.2b9. 

Bryan

-----Original Message-----
From: Dirk Enrique Seiffert [mailto:ds at caribenet dot com] 
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 4:41 PM
To: Bryan Catlin
Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] Anyone with experience of using Monowalls captive
portal in a Hotspot solution?


Hi Bryan,

thanks a lot for this information. I will try your setup ASAP. - since a few
months we are evaluating different monowall versison for a setup quite
similar to yours: We need to authenticate and disconnect prepaid users,
talking per radius to a commercial aplication. I am pleased to hear that
this works for you!

Thanks a lot!

Enrique

El Jue 21 Jul 2005 20:43, escribió:
> We do not use wep or radius wep on the Aps. We leave them open and 
> their lan ports connect to a switch and that to  the lan port on the
monowall.
> They can associate with the AP and get on the lan side of the 
> monowall, that then stops them and asks for the radius username and 
> password.  If they pass that then they get to goto the wan side of the 
> monowall and the internet.
>
> It sounds like you have radius wep on the Aps turned on and when on 
> gets it right they all come thru as that user using the aps mac 
> address then and the monowall does not get to do its job on each user.  
> The AP is just a layer 2 device and each users mac address is what is 
> used to do everything on the captive portal.
>
> We have several setup this way and all monowalls authenticate against 
> the one radius server.
>


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Dirk Enrique Seiffert
CaribeNet S.A. - Cartagena - Colombia
www.caribenet.com

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