I did not understand you question throughly but if you are asking about integrating CP with paypal i think only a sponsored work will achieve this.
On Wed, Dec 9, 2009 at 12:40 PM, Christoph Fahle <christ...@betahaus.de>wrote: > My dearest PF Sense Support Mailinglist, > > I have some things I want to achieve with the help of PF Sense and I am not > quite sure if this a) make sense and b) is possible with our technical set > up. Nevertheless I am also looking for somebody that could help us with > further developing a package for pf sense and open sourcing it, if that > would help our needs. But anyway, let's get started: > > We do run a coworking space in berlin (www.betahaus.de) wich host around > 120 coworkers and is running on a pfSense 1.2.2. as the heart of the Wifi > and Lan infrastructur. We basically do only have Wifi APs from Linksys (WRT > 54 GL) running on OpenWRT. Our Users book their plan (weekly, monthly or > part time desks) via paypal subscription or handish (they just pay cash) > > To ease up usermanagement and billing issues, we would love to have the > following features: > > > - a captive portal solution that prompts you to either authenticate or > signup for a monthly plan on paypal or similar if you open your laptop and > connect to the WLAN. > - an API that hand over Ids of users that are logged on , e.g. are > situated inside the coworking space, so that you can check out how is > present (of course only if the agreed earlier!) > - an API that hands over some activity data to play around with on our > external website (e.g. total users online, location of users inside the > building/access point wise, downstream, upstream, anonymous voip traffic, > whatever makes sense,) > > With my knowledge which is limited it seems that for the furst bullet point > we just need to make a radius server check with paypal if the users has paid > his plan and at what schedule he is allowed to work at our coworking space. > the rest is done by the captive portal function of the pfsense, I guess. But > still I am not an expert and maybe there are smarter ways to conduct what I > have in mind. > > I would be very glad to get some hints into the right direction and would > be happy if we could get closer to a good solution. > > I you happen to be in Berlin anyway just pass by betahaus at Moritzplatz to > have a chat about it. We are open all day and serve good coffee... ;) > > Cheers > > Christoph > > > > > > -- Ermal
