From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Apr 21 16:16:10 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 653FF16A403 for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:16:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from out4.smtp.messagingengine.com (out4.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.28]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E95713C48A for ; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:16:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jeffrey@goldmark.org) Received: from compute1.internal (compute1.internal [10.202.2.41]) by out1.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49536217749; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:16:13 -0400 (EDT) Received: from heartbeat2.messagingengine.com ([10.202.2.161]) by compute1.internal (MEProxy); Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:16:10 -0400 X-Sasl-enc: RSRTKN046Uq/h9yRZy3ytBbfQ23AITlVa8N8YZ/reEwK 1177172170 Received: from [10.1.10.132] (n114.ewd.goldmark.org [72.64.118.114]) by mail.messagingengine.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 167AFB953; Sat, 21 Apr 2007 12:16:10 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <9301511B-2476-426D-898D-A88F04AF6FFD@goldmark.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Jeffrey Goldberg Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 11:16:07 -0500 To: Angelin Lalev X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD machine instead of wireless hotspot device X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 16:16:10 -0000 On Apr 21, 2007, at 7:54 AM, Angelin Lalev wrote: > I have wireless hotspot device (Handlink WG-601) which I need to > replace with FreeBSD machine. > The device has following functionality I need to replicate: > > 1. It has dhcp server (that's easy) > 2. It makes NAT between it's "internal" interfaces and "wan" > interface (easy too, but look at 3). > 3. It actually responds on every ARP request coming on it's > internal interfaces. That allows it to act > as router for machines that instead of using dhcp are configured > with wrong static IP addresses. > 4. It can use RADIUS for authentication of the users. > Actually, non-authenticated users are given IP address (no WPA, > TKIP, etc) and when they first > try to load a web page are redirected to authentication web-page. > Then their username and password > are checked against RADIUS database and only then they are allowed > to connect to the outer network. > > Two more things: > > 1. It was part of a larger wireless hotspot service, sponsored from > the government and implemented by outer organization, so buying > another with my organization's money is out of the question. > 2. I'm aware of the issues with security but again I cannot modify > the policy there. > > I'll be very thankful for any ideas. You may look at something like m0n0wall. Running it on a Soerkis box with wireless should give you exactly what you are looking for. But even if you can't buy a nice small and cheap box like that, it should run on anything FreeBSD runs on. See http://m0n0.ch/wall/ -j