On 11/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">James Wakefield</b> <<a href="mailto:jamesw@deakin.edu.au">jamesw@deakin.edu.au</a>> wrote:<div><span class="gmail_quote"></span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br>> - if my wifi router is not able to be configured for accounting my network is<br>> not able to do accounting because station(s) cannot contact 1813.<br>><br><br>That's correct - at least, you won't be able to do RADIUS accounting
<br>with your wifi router. Depending on your network's topology and what<br>other equipment you may have you may be able to use another method to<br>provide accounting. Chillispot (<a href="http://www.chillispot.org/">http://www.chillispot.org/
</a>) might do<br>what you want. You might even be able to use the iptables byte counters<br>on your Linux server and route traffic through it if you have no other<br>options.<br></blockquote></div><br>Just a little addition here.
<br>Chillispot indeed does that, but if you want an all in one solution to replace your wifi router,<br>M0n0wall is worth to take a look at. <a href="http://m0n0.ch/wall/">http://m0n0.ch/wall/</a><br>I use it in hotspot setups with freeradius and it works flawlessly.
<br><br>Sincerely, Yves<br>