Steve, thanks for the list.

It seems that the freeside is the best, as it can also provide a lot of other functionalities I will have to run soon.

However, I had an attack of panic, seeing how much I have to learn just to execute (with comprehension) installation instructions I saw in their wiki. It will take me three days just to get the logic of it.

Ah, well. Not the first time in my life.

Anybody here would be holding my hand during the first installation?

P.

Hi Petros, Nicolas,

I guess it depends on how you define your needs.  There are a few things that might be worth taking a quick look at.

Daloradius (http://www.daloradius.com/) is a full-featured billing system that is Open Source and supports both voucher and post-paid billing options.  It has a captive portal.

Freeside (http://freeside.biz/freeside/) is a full ISP management system that supports voucher and captive portal among many other features.  

RadiusDesk (https://sourceforge.net/projects/radiusdesk/) is Open Source and has billing/captive portal features

None of the above will run on a WiFi AP but are designed as a gateway server software that would need probably something like an Intel NUC or similar to run.

There is also PfSense (https://www.pfsense.org/), and a host of similar software, that are network gateway/security solutions designed to run on small memory/cpu footprint devices that also includes a captive portal but no voucher systems.

Cheers... Steve Song

On 3 August 2017 at 12:52, Nicolas Pace <nico@libre.ws> wrote:

On Thu, 2017-08-03 at 18:48 +0300, Freelab wrote:
> Hi Nicolas,
> Thanks for your answer. It creates two more questions, though:
> 1. Can you recommend any functionally equivalent solution for the
> time being?

None that I know of.
there might be a way using nodogsplash and a radius server, but never
tried.

> 2. Do you have any expectations when PitBull could be available?

End of the year maybe? don't know, sorry :(

>
> Best,
> P.
>
> On 03/08/2017 12:53 μμ, Nicolas Pace wrote:
> > Hi Petros,
> >
> > Right now PitBull is not available for general use... it is close
> > to be
> > an MVP of something that we want to have.
> > It doesn't use NoDogSplash, just it's own way of dealing with
> > traffic.
> > For now I suggest not to use it... till it gets announced properly
> > :)
> >
> > Sorry for the delay, and thanks for the understanding,
> >
> > On Tue, 2017-08-01 at 20:37 +0300, Freelab wrote:
> > > Raising up to the challenge, I completed load balancing
> > > configuration
> > > on the master router in Prosfygika. So, now the configuration is
> > > as
> > > follows:
> > > We have a bunch of subrouters, running the tree topology LAN (I
> > > hope
> > > to convert it into a ring at least), all hooked up to the LAN
> > > port of
> > > TP-Link WDR 4310 master router, donated and configured by Gui
> > > (configuration later spoiled by yours truly).
> > > On the WAN side, we have two ISP-delivered routers, lovely
> > > pulling
> > > the weight in 50/50 policy via mwan3 load balance.
> > > Next challenge now is to set up a voucher system -- enter Pitbull
> > > --
> > > to control freeriding. The plan is to give users unlimited access
> > > to
> > > internally hosted resources (soon to be: OwnCloud, messaging
> > > servers
> > > and such), but limit access to external gateways to those who has
> > > active vouchers.
> > > I downoladed zip from github, read the readme and it seems that
> > > it
> > > may work (nodogsplash provided). Or did I miss something? 
> > > Also, is there any text I could read, explaining the whole logic
> > > of
> > > this system? I have some idea in my mind, but not sure if this is
> > > the
> > > same idea you guys had. 
> > > This area is totally uncharted for me so I wish to ask a lot
> > > first
> > > and then proceed.
> > > Best,
> > > Petros
> > > -- 
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