Rental Home Wireless Networks?

Tangential asks: "I'm looking for advice. I have a rental home at the beach that I've equipped with Cable Modem and WiFi. After trying to use it with WEP for a summer I gave that up (life is far too short for me to talk every renter thru configuring their notebook). I would like a bit of control over who uses my system. I've blocked outbound port 25 (since my ISP doesn't), but what I'd really like to do is run something like hotels do, where you enter a password and activate your MAC address for a certain amount of time, Then I could just tell the renter the password and manage that remotely. I run OSS in my Linksys WRT-54G router at home (from Sveasoft) and I like being able to use a low cost router for such a function. I'd like to know what systems other folks have encountered that do this using OSS and mass market equipment."

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[SFalcon]

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[max born]

You may be anticipating a problem you'll never have. i.e. people sucking your bandwidth and sending spam. Why not leave it open. I do with mine. I think it's important to share bandwidth. I worked for a comany in San Francisco with a DS3. I built a Wi-Fi network for them and convinced them to share it with the public. It was't a problem (however, I did put it the DMZ and block port 25 just in case).

If you still think you need to have usernames and passwords try nocat. It handles authentication but I usually use it for a splash page for access points I build from old laptops.

Good luck.

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