Actually what I'm making is specifically designed to work in conjunction with a Mikrotik hotspot as a friendly front-end. Those all-in-one hotspot boxes from D-Link and the like are incredibly expensive and riddled with stupid security vulnerabilites.
Mikrotik produce a 'user manager' package which works well and is quite cool, but only allows a very limited number of users unless you upgrade to a higher level (and more expensive) RouterOS licence. It's also terribly documented and would be a pain to set up for anyone not familiar with the technology.
Heaps of other hotspots I have seen also rely on a RADIUS-powered authentication and accounting system in order to work so I see no reason why this idea won't work with other hotspots.
Sadly there seems to be no decent, free, easy-to-use web-based manager for such hotspots so thought it was about time to have a crack at making one.
I guess there's no reason why this couldn't be adapted into a nice web-based IEEE 802.1x manager for SME as well, but it all depends on how interested others are and how much free time I get.
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