If it were me, I'd recommend coova also. <br>
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-- CHS<br>
(Workin' on his presentation!)<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 9/21/08, <b class="gmail_sendername">aaron</b> <<a href="mailto:aaron@pd.org">aaron@pd.org</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sunday 21 September 2008 13:48, Brian Pitts wrote:<br> > jimmy halbert wrote:<br> > > I am looking for a open source wireless networking solution. I have an<br> organization that is going to have 450 wireless users of which half of these<br>
users will be online at a time. I am looking for a solution to control the<br> access points, and provide some measure of security. Any suggested would be<br> helpful. I have looked at Aruba,Foundry and IronPoint...all of these<br>
solutions are way out of budget.<br> ><br> > How about Coova?<br> <br> <br>(One of the features of which is to let you use a WRT54 wireless<br> gateway router as a stand alone "hot spot" wifi server.)<br>
<br><br> > I think there's going to be an ALE presentation about the CoovaAP<br> > firmware soon.<br> <br> <br> <br>The Charles Shapiro presentation on Coova is currently scheduled for<br> our ALE October Central meeting on Thursday, the 16th. As I already<br>
have a WRT54G router running OpenWRT Linux I'm looking forward<br> to this one!<br> <br> peace<br> <br>aaron<br> <br><br> > For controlling the access points, there's the CoovaAAA<br> > management service. You don't have to use the CoovaAP firmware to use<br>
> CoovaAAA; your access points just have to support certain RADIUS attributes.<br> ><br> > <a href="http://coova.org/">http://coova.org/</a><br> ><br> > -Brian<br> <br> <br> _______________________________________________<br>
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