Per Shawn, I'm reposting this here hoping for more help. And maybe I'll get more yet if I can get up early enough (I work graveyard) to get to the west side meeting (tonight?!?). Thanks, Mike On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 05:52:58 -0700, "Shawn Badger" said: > I have used IPcop with great success in the past. I has a very easy to > use > web interface and only needs a light weight box to run and it comes with > some basic services. I would also check out the PLUG Discus list as that > one gets a lot more traffic and they just recently had a discussion on > firewall distros. > > > On Jan 22, 2008 2:38 PM, wrote: > > > Our wireless network here at our motel is getting eaten alive by > > non-guests. One option was to keep the company who set it up (using a > > Netgear router!) or try a cheaper route, namely setting it up ourselves. > > As I'm fairly Linux-savvy and another guy is fairly technical as well, > > we feel we shouldn't have too much trouble. The problem is making it so > > that the non-technical front desk employees and owner can do it. > > > > 3 packages I've looked at heavily so far are ZoneCD, which I'm not sure > > I trust, M0n0wall, and its descendant PFSense. The latter was the first > > I tried, but seems to be having bad issues with crashing. I'm thinking > > at this point it's a corrupted CD burn, but I won't know until tonight. > > > > One problem I have with all of these, though, is that they're all > > live-cd's. This is ordinarily fine, but I'd also like to run a server > > with basic services on it as well > > as the firewall. (Yeah, I know it's not the safest to run server daemons > > on the same machine as a firewall, but it's not like we're a major > > target here trying to hide something.) > > > > Anyway, something with a web GUI for configuring whatever low-level > > filtering system the OS supports (I'm considering both the BSD's and > > Linux) and captive portal is important. Those live-cd's do it--but it > > seems you can't get the app-level software by itself. Do any of you > > know where to find it? (And, of course, I'm talking about an open source > > license here--we don't have money to burn!) > > > > Thanks, Mike > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG-applications mailing list > > PLUG-applications@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us > > http://lists.plug.phoenix.az.us/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/plug-applications > > > > Reminder: All replies will go back to this mailing list. If you wish to > > send a reply to a specific person, please use the reply function and change > > the "To:" address to that person before sending. > > --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss