ChilliSpot
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ChilliSpot is an open source captive portal or wireless LAN access point controller. It is used for authenticating users of a wireless LAN. It supports web based login, which is today's standard for public HotSpots, WISP "smart-client" authentication, and it supports Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA and WPA2). Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA protocol) is handled via RADIUS (on board or remote).
Development on the original project continues, but slowly for some. The Coova-Chilli is an active project and has since added many new features and is an integral part of the CoovaAP firmware.
[edit] Uses in firmware
- CoovaAP
- An OpenWrt based firmware with many hotspot specific features.
- DD-WRT
- ChilliSpot is included in the latest builds of the open source DD-WRT firmware package.
- OpenWRT
- Chillispot is included as a package in WhiteRussian RC5, the OpenWRT linux distribution for wireless routers, and DD-WRT. ChilliSpot, a RADIUS server, and a Web Server, can be configured on a single OpenWRT router, to create a public or commercial HotSpot with a very small form factor.
- The new OpenWRT RC6 has code name kamikaze.
