Search Again: Possible hotspot provisioning ideas... From: Kory Mohr Date: Friday, October 4, 2002 Time: 12:06:51 pm Howdy all. I didn't get any feedback on my earlier message about using Optigold in a hotspot environment so I did some thinking and thought I'd share some ideas and see if I'm off base or not. :-) I'd like to use Optigold to handle the billing infrastructure, of course. I'm looking at using MacRadius for the authentication and finally looking at Intermapper for SNMP-based remote management. The way I see it, a new subscriber tries to log on to the hotspot wireless access point. MacRadius doesn't recognize the user's radio client MAC address and lets Optigold know that the user is not authorized access to the netowrk. Optigold then pushes the user to its web-based signup page, providing the customer the capability of signing up immediately by using their credit card info. Once they enter their info and it's approved, the user's radio card MAC address is entered into MacRadius' authentication database. MacRadius then tells Optigold to approve access to the network. Optigold then tracks the user's time online, if it's minute-based (or whatever) or bills the subscriber a flat-rate, if they had so choosen at time of sign-up. Does this sound out of whack? I'd really appreciate any info. Thx much! Regards, Kory __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New DSL Internet Access from SBC & Yahoo! http://sbc.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- To subscribe, unsubscribe or to search list archive please visit http://www.optigold.com/lists/isp.html ---------------------------------------------------

Messages In This Thread: Possible hotspot provisioning ideas... by Kory Mohr on Oct 4, 2002 at 12:06:51 pm