Hi Alan,

Thanks for the quick feedback, looks like version 1.2b9 is ready for 
stable captive portal use but that versions with per user bandwidth 
radius support are not stable enough to use in a live environment yet !

In answer to your question I would like to use a radius server for user 
authentication and bandwidth control because I'm setting up a Wireless 
ISP and think this will enable me to be able to register new customers 
and take payment on the captive portal page, which will then register 
the customer on the radius server, then when they logon to the captive 
portal it will authenticate the customer and limit there bandwidth 
automaticaly according to what service they signed up for.

Without per-user bandwidth radius support I would only be able to have 
one service speed and price for customers when authenticating using a 
radius server, and without using a seperate radius server I would not 
know how to create a webpage that automaticaly registers the customer 
and configures there bandwidth limits.


Cheers,   James.....

A dot L dot M dot Buxey at lboro dot ac dot uk wrote:

>Hi,
>
>  
>
>>Would you be able to tell me if version 1.2b9 has per-user bandwidth 
>>support on the captive portal ?
>>    
>>
>
>no.  but Chillispots does  ;-)
>
>  
>
>>From the release notes it appears to have been removed in 1.2b8 due to 
>>being buggy or lacking support. I'm happy to use version 1.2b6 or 1.2b7 
>>if the per-user bandwidth radius support works on the captive portal.
>>    
>>
>
>it got removed in 1.2b8 because it didnt work properly - ie because it was IN 1.2b5/6/7
>those dont work properly - though by simply sending an extra attribute from the
>FreeRADIUS box you can get by that.
>
>alan
>
>
>  
>