Nocat Auth is dead, long live WifiDog
Nocat Auth was the first and for a while the only open source captive portal, written specifically to address needs in community wireless networks.
WifiDog is a open source captive portal project written by some folks from the Ile Sans Fil community wireless networking project.
WifiDog really shines in aggreating content and making it available in splash pages. It can take dynamic data feeds, such as geo-coded or location based information feeds and display it to people on the splash page. It has google maps integration and sports a monitoring map that shows you all the status your nodes running wifidog and will alert you if a node goes down.
In addition the fact that is designed to aggreate information feeds means that you could feed stuff such as Itunes sharing bonjour advertisements and display that on the portal page.
I saw it demonstrated at a session this weekend and am extremeley impressed. I encourage anyone looking for a captive portal based solution to check it out.
April 3rd, 2006 at 6:26 pm
Happy to see you seem to like our dog
I’m the guy behind all the XML / XSLT interface, the extensible authentication system (RADIUS…) and the Google Maps mashup.
Hope to see you soon on the list (wifidog mailing list).
April 5th, 2006 at 9:31 pm
[…] So at hack night I managed to get a wifidog package built (see my previous post on wifidog). It is just a binary package of the gateway component that is built for pyramid stripped of the docs and header file. You still need to have an wifidog auth server for it to talk to. I am working on getting that setup, but it appears to start up just fine and complain that it cant talk to the auth server, so I am guessing it works. I will test it more thoroughly once the auth server is working. […]