Need help to migrate from mikrotik hotspot to Linux Hotspot for I-net cafe..
I have a net cafe, it is going bigger day after day and the services I do offer need to be more efficient.
Now I am using Mikrotik RouterOS to: * Setup a "basic and easy to manage" hotspot server or pppoe server (for easy to manage AAA method) or act as a regular router. * Bandwidth managment. * Firewall. * Of course connect the users of my cafe to net services through a gateway. It is going to make me angry, cause it is not doing its job very well. So I need an alternative doing the same and much more. But, the only condition is: I want it LINUX. ******* my network is as follows: I-net gateway squid firewall etc.: openSUSE Linux 10.2. DMZ: DNS fedora 4, web SUSE 10.2. Mikrotik RouterOS for what I've mentioned above. I-net gateway | hub----DMZ | Mikrotik | | hub ------------------ wifi | I-net cafe thanks alot.. |
It's been a month w/ no answers.
Your Q is valid, interesting, & well phrased; maybe no one here has a good answer. Have you made any progress on your own? |
Thank you very much archtoad6.
Yes in fact, I solved my problem myself. thanks again.. and thanks to every one. |
Would you mind telling us how you did it?
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Sure, I am glad to..
I found that if I use pure distro of Linux, it will be too difficult to do all the stuff myself. So, instead of that, I used Smoothwall "www.smoothwall.com", which is enhanced security distro offers a highly secure firewall with wonderful addons to do various enhancements, also it already contains a great bandwidth management capabilities. Only one problem I faced then which is, HOW TO AUTHENTICATE USERS THROUGH THE WIFI ???? One of smoothwall famous enhancements is: Advanced proxy server "www.advproxy.net". Which give me the choice to do authentication via local database, radius, ldap, active directory, or samba. I chosed to authenticate users via radius server, also I used WPA-RADIUS for the wireless authentication (my wifi). At last I left my DMZ as it is. Now it is working perfectly..Thanks GOD. Thanks again 'archtoad6' for your attention. |
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