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Obsolete Releases => SME 7.x Contribs => Topic started by: zachflem on January 14, 2010, 07:21:06 AM

Title: SME + PPPoE SERVER for WIFI Network.
Post by: zachflem on January 14, 2010, 07:21:06 AM

Hey Folks,
I am looking to use SME to serve email and intranet on a wireless lan that covers a number of clients around our town.

I was wondering if SME could also be used to serve the PPPoE as well?

ie. Could the user database in SME be used to reference the authentication of PPPoE.

Has anyone done similar? I'd really like to hear your experiences if any!

Cheers

Zach.

Title: Re: SME + PPPoE SERVER for WIFI Network.
Post by: Stefano on January 14, 2010, 09:05:40 AM

Hi Zach, welcome here..

maybe I don't understand exactly what are you asking for, but SME supports radius auth against its users..

HTH

Title: Re: SME + PPPoE SERVER for WIFI Network.
Post by: zachflem on January 14, 2010, 01:30:07 PM

Thanks for the Welcome!

I'm pretty sure thats what we need!  For radius authentication, is there a special package I need to install? Or does it work 'out-of-the-box'?


The only other thing I can think of is a bandwidth accounting package, but thats later down the track.

Title: Re: SME + PPPoE SERVER for WIFI Network.
Post by: Stefano on January 14, 2010, 01:32:19 PM

radius is already installed on SME
you have to create the right conf for it

you should read the dev's manual to understand how to create the conf files in the SME's way

Title: Re: SME + PPPoE SERVER for WIFI Network.
Post by: Normando on January 14, 2010, 03:41:28 PM

Hi zachflem. May be CoveChilli will help you:
http://wiki.contribs.org/CoovaChilli

Title: Re: SME + PPPoE SERVER for WIFI Network.
Post by: zachflem on January 18, 2010, 01:58:39 AM

thanks guys, ive got a fresh sme box up and running, and i'm going to test the network with  coovachilli.

Anyone heard of a graphical panel interface for it nearing completion?

Cheers

Zach