Understansding

[jon jon]

Ivan,
Once the user is authenticated, and then a pop up window that comes up from
the chillispot, hotspotlogin.cgi script,creating the pop up window with a
timer counting down. So that user is then allowed on the internet. Now the
user is connected to the chillispot server, does chillispot then get packets
from freeradius server, I don't see anywhere in the radius database that
that a attribute is set for radacct, to only allow wireless from a certain
amount of time everyday. The set up I am using has a different database that
has the location and times wireless is available for everyday of the week.
So when the time of day comes, when the wireless is not available. Is the
Free Radius server sending packets to the chillispot server, saying that the
wireless is no longer avaible and to kick off all users?
thanks

On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 4:25 PM, Ivan Kalik <tnt at kalik.net> wrote:

> > I have a access point that is connected to a chillispot server, which
> then
> > communicates to an external freeradius server. I have a mysql server also
> > on
> > the freeradius server. I am just tyring to figure out how this is all
> > working. When a wireless client comes in they are unauthencticated users,
> > which will be redirectedto uam homepage, located on the external radius
> > server. The user is then brought to the hotspotlogin.cgi. Then the
> > username
> > and password are sent over to the radius server to check to see if the
> > user
> > matches the user in the mysql database. If authenticated, then the radius
> > server sends a packet back to chillispot, saying yes accept the user, and
> > redirect them to a web page that I specify. (is that correct?)
>
> That is correct.
>
> > Does the
> > user
> > remain connected to the freeradius server,
>
> No, user never connects to radius server.
>
> > since the pop up window that
> > comes up is from there anyway,
>
> Pop-up window is a part of ChilliSpot.
>
>  or is it chillispot that is then taking
> > over.
> > Which server is actually allowing the user onto the internet? I am
> > thinking
> > it is chillispot since that is handling dhcp.
>
> Yes. Radius is just a service ChilliSpot uses (it's optional).
>
> > In the database is a table
> > that is used to allow open and close time, that the wireless is avaible
> > everyday, wouldn't that mean that the user would have to remain connected
> > to
> > the freeradius server?
>
> Again - no, user is *never* connected to radius server. That table
> probably composes Login-Time attribute so that logintime module can
> calculate Sesion-Time if user is allowed to connect. But you should ask
> ChilliSpot people how it works.
>
> Ivan Kalik
> Kalik Informatika ISP
>
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