Re: Conference Wireless

[Mark Owen <mr.markowen () gmail com>]

Agreed.  Netcat is great.  Here is a livecd featuring it.
http://www.publicip.net/
Haven't used it but I've heard good things.

On 4/15/05, Dave Peters <vlist () daveshow com> wrote:
> 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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