Hi This is a very interesting application and congratulations on making it! If you can It would be very interesting if you could provide details in the following.
> - Mail notifications for important events (new user signed up, weekly RRD > stats, reboots, ...) > - 'Jail' for misbehaving systems and a HTTP redirecting to let them know > - Reports with last time systems were connected (usefull for cleanup RADIUS > users) > - Support for external monitoring solutions of internal network devices > - Default (low) speed group for unknown users through Captive portal > bandwidth restriction did you use an external non custom application for these and if yes which? On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 2:29 PM, Christian Neumann <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I just wanted to share how glad we are that pfSense exists. Usually people > mostly share problems, but this time I just wanted to highlight what we have > been able to achieve with a little bit of customization. Please let me know > if this isn't the right forum for this and point to other place where I can > share my appreciation. > > I'm working for a NGO in rural Africa (Malawi) and with pfSense we might > probably run the biggest free WiFi hotspot throughout whole Malawi. Nothing > special for modern installations, but in places with poor power and high > communication costs the dimensions are pretty unique. > > So far we have around 25 access points that are used by approx. 100 unique > systems/users during a typical business day. All this squeezes through a > slow, high latency satellite link (~500 kBits/s downstream) and thanks to the > Captive Portal components provides free access for all (through our public > computers, other laptops as well as smartphones) while it is still manageable. > > In a nutshell we have/can: > - Open access points without passwords (mainly running on dd-wrt) > - A custom portal page where users need to register for the first time they > connect to the network > - RADIUS MAC authentication (yes, yes, it might be possible to fool, but in > our context without hard billing requirements good enough) > - Default (low) speed group for unknown users through Captive portal > bandwidth restriction > - Increase (promote) systems/users to higher bandwidth limits by admins > - Blocking websites based on domain/URL and time of day > - Mail notifications for important events (new user signed up, weekly RRD > stats, reboots, ...) > - 'Jail' for misbehaving systems and a HTTP redirecting to let them know > - Optional Voucher support > - Support for internal Voice over IP > - (so far only imperfect) RADIUS accounting > - Reports with last time systems were connected (usefull for cleanup RADIUS > users) > - Support for external monitoring solutions of internal network devices > > All this with ordinary pfSense customizations and a few custom extensions. I > feel all this is pretty 'out of the box' pfSense, but I'm also happy to > elaborate a bit more on this if someone finds this interesting. > > Thanks a lot for making our life a bit easier! > christian > > -- > IT/Medical Informatics Manager > Partners In Health - Abwenzi Pa Za Umoyo > Neno, Malawi > _______________________________________________ > List mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list _______________________________________________ List mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pfsense.org/mailman/listinfo/list
