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.

As of mid 2007, ChilliSpot appears to be dead. The developer Jens Jacobsen has vanished, and the chillispot.org domain has lapsed. Fortunately CoovaChilli has forked from ChilliSpot 1.0 and development continues with an active user-base.


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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 an optional package in the OpenWRT linux distribution for wireless routers.

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FON
ChilliSpot is used in FON's FONSPOT software that turns a regular Mac/Linux/PC machine into a FON spot.

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