On Fri, May 01, 2009 at 07:59:09AM -0500, David E. Smith wrote: > On Fri, May 1, 2009 7:56 am, 3-dB Networks wrote: > > Not at all. I have the controller and access points picked out, just need > > the radius server for the CC processing and authentication for the > > controller to talk to. > > I'm still a bit confused, I guess - RADIUS doesn't have anything to do > with credit cards. It's purely authentication/authorization (i.e. here's a > name and password, do they get in, yes/no).
It is also accounting. The billing system feeds the RADIUS database who is allowed to authenticate and what they are allowed to do. RADIUS collects accounting infomation, how long connected, how many bits transefered and at which hotspot. Billing eats the accounting information from RADIUS and uses that as input to the authentication and authorization phase. You might want to look at DaloRADIUS, as a hotspot oriented management frontend to FreeRADIUS. I've not used it, so cannot vouch for it. Just hear it mentioned a lot on the FreeRADIUS mailing lists. -- Scott Lambert KC5MLE Unix SysAdmin lamb...@lambertfam.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wants You! Join today! http://signup.wispa.org/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WISPA Wireless List: wireless@wispa.org Subscribe/Unsubscribe: http://lists.wispa.org/mailman/listinfo/wireless Archives: http://lists.wispa.org/pipermail/wireless/
