Anyone have any recommendations for BCPs or software suggestions on running an open community-based access point (or network)? Think: an urban area where potentially lots of people could be popping on and off with little authentication. These seem to be pretty prevalent around Panera's and other things -- I just don't know what they are doing to manage (rather that prevent) P2P and Spam, etc uses. Pointers very appreciated!! Thanks, DJ
On 4/28/07, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
Anyone have any recommendations for BCPs or software suggestions on running an open community-based access point (or network)?
MAAWG BCPs on walled gardens (probably coming soon if not already out there). Quite a few ISPs - Bell Canada for example - are already doing this on a large scale. As these coffee shop APs are usually running off a standard DSL line - its not muni wifi as such - a walled garden should nail abuse very fast, and encourage sensible firewalling on the part of the coffee shop owner .. or he'll find that a NAT'ted IP with multiple infected laptops coming and going out of it might be in and out of a walled garden all the time. There's some vendors who concentrate on walled garden stuff - Perftech (www.perftech.com) for example. Arbor and Sandvine too have kit that can be used for this, I believe .. of course, at the edge of an ISP's DSL network. srs
I'd look at Mikrotik. There's a listserv at part-15.org and a web forum at mikrotik.com ----- Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions http://www.ics-il.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Deepak Jain" <deepak@ai.net> To: <nanog@merit.edu> Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 3:58 PM Subject: Open WiFi Access Point BCP's???
Anyone have any recommendations for BCPs or software suggestions on running an open community-based access point (or network)?
Think: an urban area where potentially lots of people could be popping on and off with little authentication. These seem to be pretty prevalent around Panera's and other things -- I just don't know what they are doing to manage (rather that prevent) P2P and Spam, etc uses.
Pointers very appreciated!!
Thanks,
DJ
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