WiFiDog Captive Portal

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WiFiDog is an open source embeddable captive portal solution used to build wireless hotspots. WiFiDog consists of two components the Gateway and the Auth Server. WiFiDog was created and conceived of by the technical team of Île Sans Fil.

Contents 1 Gateway 2 Authentication server 3 References 4 Links

[edit] Gateway

The WiFiDog gateway is written in C with no dependencies beyond the kernel. This structure enables it to be embedded in devices such as the Wrt54g router running OpenWrt or most PCs running GNU/Linux. Linux Journal reports that 'a working gateway install can be packaged in less than 15Kb on an i386 platform'^[1].

[edit] Authentication server

The WiFiDog Authentication server is a PHP and PostgreSQL server based solution written to authenticate clients in a captive portal environment. WiFiDog Auth provides portal specific content management, allows users to create wireless internet access accounts using email access, provides gateway uptime statistics and connection specific and user log statistics.

[edit] References

1. ^ Michael Lenczner Portals with Wifidog Linux Journal

[edit] Links

• Île Sans Fil website
• Map of the Île Sans Fil network
• WifiDog project website
• List of groups using WifiDog
• OpenWrt homepage
• Deploying a public wireless network using WiFiDog