To restore balance to the world ps56k wrote in
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>> Jeff Liebermann wrote:
>>> On Thu, 8 May 2008 16:25:22 +0100, "Joker7" <sat_ring@hotmail.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Yep seen
>>>> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal#Software_Captive_Portals>
>>>> one of my first ports of call.
>>>>
>>>> As you say most are Linux or not free for none commercial use,thats
>>>> why I asked about windows.
>>>
>>> Hint: There's a reason that most are Linux based. Users want
>>> reliability, which means leaving it on forever and not having it
>>> crash. Also the ability to size the system to do just the one task
>>> that's needed. Doing that will Linux is easy. Trying to do that
>>> with Windoze is umm.... not very easy.
>>>
>>>> I have Wireless Access Point ,Router ,Internet connection
>>>
>>> Numbers please? All such devices are not created equal. Linksys
>>> WRT54G routers and others can do much of what's needed inside the
>>> router with alternative firmware (i.e. DD-WRT, OpenWRT).
>>>
>>>> What Im looking for is some control software to control who is
>>>> using it and what for,limit bandwidth maybe some content filtering.
>>>
>>> Bandwidth limiting (QoS) is usually a feature of the router.
>>> <http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Quality_of_Service>
>>> There are various rule sets that can be applied depending one
>>> whether you're trying to prioritize on the basis of IP, MAC, source,
>>> destination, type of service, etc. Lots of solutions for Linux,
>>> but I can't think of any for W2K. Sorry.
>>>
>>> Are you sure you just need bandwidth management and not access
>>> control? That's the usual problem, where users need some sort of
>>> authorization to use the hot spot. That's also the most complicated
>>> part of the hot-spot. It's almost always a RADIUS server, which
>>> requires installing some SQL database manager.
>>>
>>
>> I think I would have two areas of "challenge".
>>
>> #1 - who was accessing it - if it was just open, then no problem,
>> but if it was "restricted" to some local clients....
>> then how to handle the logistics of a splash screen.
>>
>> #2 - how much broadband bandwidth was avail to share... and how to
>> "share" it
>> I guess some form of QoS might be involved here, for newer services,
>> but in addition to some kind of throttling per user...

Most of the "challenge" can be over come with (Access Gateway) for a word,
but it's seems impossible to find some thing open source for windows.

Chris