Topic: Hotel broadband management system

[brianr]

Anyone come across a Hotel broadband management system that could be installed on SME7?

I've tried googling, with no results.  I am happy to try the install and report back.

[raem]

brianr

> Anyone come across a Hotel broadband management system that could be installed on SME7?


You mean a QoS type of thing for users ?
There was this contrib for sme6

eneo-qos_cbq-0.1-05en.noarch.rpm

ftp://ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/e-smith/contrib/eneo/RPMS/noarch/

It was configurable on a per user basis or could be configured to equally divide the bandwidth between all users.
Don't know if it works on sme7 or could be modified to work.

[brianr]

Thanks, but no, I am looking for the sort of thing that will allow the hotel management to charge and control the use of the internet on a per user basis.

[icpix]

...management to charge and control the use of the internet on a per user basis.

Isn't that the sort of thing an internet cafe does?
ie expand your search to include that parameter.
----best wishes, Robert

[brianr]

Isn't that the sort of thing an internet cafe does?
ie expand your search to include that parameter.

Not quite - an internet cafe provides the PCs, whereas in a hotel the customers use their own. Therefore all the internet cafe programs I have looked at require (Windows based) software to be installed in the client PCs.

 

[icpix]

brianr----
Modified SQUID or Dansguardian?
----best wishes, Robert

[brianr]

Modified SQUID or Dansguardian?

Yes I did look at them, but they are well away from the accounting requirements that there might be and we are not looking to control the content of the users, I dont think I either have the skill or the time to modify them.

There is a proprietary router/Wifi/Printer box that claims to do the job, or I could just use standard routers, WAP, etc and control the use via a changing WEP key and manual procedures, but I thought it was an ideal opportunity to get an SMEServer box through the door of this particular institution.

[icpix]

brianr----
Last idea: it's a very simple idea! Nothing fancy - just an electro-mechanical relay timer switch on the CAT5 trunking? Afterall you're not looking into packet sniffing, content or censoring just on-line connectivity durations. Hotel guests pre-book an hour's connx...
----best wishes, Robert

[NickCritten]

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl/12/01/0342209

[haymann]

I just installed pfSense last night. It has a captive portal feature built into it. I haven't checked it out yet, but it looked promising... Of course this is just a firewall, not a full-featured server like SME.
Ryan

[kmccarn]

I would try using a Point of Presence app installed on a Linksys router behind the SME.

Check out http://www.wrt54g.net/ and look for hotspot firmware

 

[romst]

Pfsense works fine with captive portal from m0n0 project (http://m0n0.ch).
It's not only firewall, ports from freebsd are included.  

[duncan]

Whilst its not a freeish type solution - Ive just done a hotel with a Tut VDSL setup and an Expressway  billing solution.