From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG  Fri Jun  6 00:03:09 2008
Return-Path: <owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34])
	by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6FE841065680
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri,  6 Jun 2008 00:03:09 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com)
Received: from merlin.alerce.com (merlin.alerce.com [64.62.142.94])
	by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523BA8FC14
	for <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>;
	Fri,  6 Jun 2008 00:03:09 +0000 (UTC)
	(envelope-from hartzell@alerce.com)
Received: from merlin.alerce.com (localhost [127.0.0.1])
	by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 60C0D33C62;
	Thu,  5 Jun 2008 16:39:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from postfix.alerce.com (w092.z064001164.sjc-ca.dsl.cnc.net
	[64.1.164.92])
	(using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits))
	(Client did not present a certificate)
	by merlin.alerce.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2BCC633C5B;
	Thu,  5 Jun 2008 16:39:50 -0700 (PDT)
Received: by postfix.alerce.com (Postfix, from userid 501)
	id E9CE4449A8C; Thu,  5 Jun 2008 16:39:45 -0700 (PDT)
From: George Hartzell <hartzell@alerce.com>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Message-ID: <18504.31041.882935.566558@almost.alerce.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2008 16:39:45 -0700
To: "Jim Stapleton" <stapleton.41@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <80f4f2b20806051452i62ff9862vafb4091dafee2e81@mail.gmail.com>
References: <80f4f2b20805300608s13ec0fa7x7034f1a89ea07c46@mail.gmail.com>
	<48403EDE.1090409@onetel.com>
	<80f4f2b20806051452i62ff9862vafb4091dafee2e81@mail.gmail.com>
X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 22.1.50.1
X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV using ClamSMTP
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Best solution - mobile wifi hotspot
X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5
Precedence: list
Reply-To: hartzell@alerce.com
List-Id: User questions <freebsd-questions.freebsd.org>
List-Unsubscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=unsubscribe>
List-Archive: <http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-questions>
List-Post: <mailto:freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
List-Help: <mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=help>
List-Subscribe: <http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions>, 
	<mailto:freebsd-questions-request@freebsd.org?subject=subscribe>
X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2008 00:03:09 -0000

Jim Stapleton writes:
 > [...]
 > Do you know of a wireless router that can provide individual user
 > authentication, without requiring a complex setup? Some places may not
 > want to pay for the internet connection, so he'll need to 'rent out'
 > connection bandwidth to other vendors.

Nocatsplash might do what you want:

  http://nocat.net/

which can run on a linksys wrt54gl that's running openwrt

  http://openwrt.org/

or ChilliSpot (can also run on openwrt, and others)

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ChilliSpot

or Wifidog

  http://dev.wifidog.org/

Googling up places that are discussing those releases should give you
pointers to others.

I haven't run any of them, but have had good luck using openwrt
running on various little wireless routers as openvpn endpoints.

g.