> Radius doesnt do accounting and what not. 
Since when doesn't radius do accounting?????

> Its a means of authentication.
For one...
> Billing software is more of what you are looking for. 
It could be

> Also low or no
> cost is going to mean non flashy and unfinished.  The open source
> software solutions that are incorporated with RADIUS all need quite a
> bit of work to become worthy of being used. 
If you mean the management: yes, but I think his main question is the
radius server software itself
> Security is going to be
> your biggest concern.
> 
> I have created a Billing System that has a RADIUS module and uses free
> Radius.  It however is not free or low cost.
> 
> Good luck and I hope this may help in your venture which seems to be
> setting up PAY hotspots.
> 
> Chris
Freeradius is one of the most used radius servers on the net (top3, if
it isn't already  number 1) and can do what john asks for.

J.

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