Hi,

I would like to know if there is a distro similar to ZoneCD of PublicIP (http://www.publicip.com) but can be setup locally unlike ZOneCD you have to authenticate from http://www.publicip.com. I would like to see a distro where any internet connection or access wether from wired LAN or wireless LAN will be authenticaed and usage will be recorded or accounted. What I like to see is each user will be given an account and number of internet hours, then whereever they are in network when they access the internet they will be presented an authentication webpage, once authenticated their connection time will be track down until the number of hours given to them is exhausted and their connection is disconnected.

thank you,
OcaVid

There are several portal-capture programs and applications out on the Internet freely downloadable.

One such application is chillispot, a web portal-capture application that can do some of the things the PublicIP system can do.

Check out http://www.chillispot.org/ for more information.

Unlike the PublicIP system, which is a LiveCD implementation, you will have to setup a server (or two depending), install the chillispot software, install MySQL for the database server, install Apache-SSL to handle the login securely and install Radius to perform the client authentication and configuration. This is NOT a drop-in solution by any stretch. You will also need to install Perl and PHP so you can handle the administrative side of the equation as well as write the control and reports interface to operation the system.

Just thougtht I would answer the question for you.

Of course, there are other solutions out there - check out M0N0Wall and dd-wrt as they have web portal-capture capabilites built into them and dd-wrt runs on a linksys WRT54 series wireless router (and several other platforms as well).

Hope this info helps...

gm...

gm,

Thank you for the reply. I will look into this, and try it myself but maybe it will take a time because i not good at linux yet. what i was looking was a distro that has evrything you need to run such kind of system, just install it in a server assign user understable settings, then restart it voila!!! (how i wish i could do this kind of distro).

have a great day!
ocavid