Re: Conference Wireless

[Dave Peters <vlist () daveshow com>]

As far as i know i have  not came across an ap that would do a type of  
radius authentication. Your best bet that i know of would be nocat.
http://nocat.com
On Apr 13, 2005, at 5:00 PM, Ben Blakely wrote:

> Hello List,
>  We are looking for a solution that will allow us to deploy a wireless  
> network at a conference with as little equipment and configuration as  
> necessary, but require a username/password to get on the network  
> (captive portal).  We're not worried about encryption so much as  
> ease-of-use.  We want attendees to be able to sit down, connect to the  
> network, type in a username and password that they've been provided  
> and be good to go.  Ideally this would all be self contained in the  
> AP.  I've looked at m0n0wall and other linux based routing software  
> and know that it could be done that way fairly easily.  However as all  
> of the equipment for this conference needs to be shipped cross-country  
> we'd like to avoid a second machine (in addition to the AP) if  
> possible.
>
>  Has anyone set up something like this before?  I've looked a bit at  
> the Cisco Aironet 1100 AP's which seem to be quite nice, but require  
> configuration on the client side beyond what we want to get into.   
> Does anyone know of any AP's that meet the above requirements?
>
> Thanks in advance for your help!
> /bab
>
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