[96302] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open WiFi Access Point BCP's???
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Suresh Ramasubramanian)
Fri Apr 27 22:08:40 2007
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:37:46 +0530
From: "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <ops.lists@gmail.com>
To: deepak@ai.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <463263F4.5020105@ai.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On 4/28/07, Deepak Jain <deepak@ai.net> wrote:
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> Anyone have any recommendations for BCPs or software suggestions on
> running an open community-based access point (or network)?
>
MAAWG BCPs on walled gardens (probably coming soon if not already out
there). Quite a few ISPs - Bell Canada for example - are already
doing this on a large scale.
As these coffee shop APs are usually running off a standard DSL line -
its not muni wifi as such - a walled garden should nail abuse very
fast, and encourage sensible firewalling on the part of the coffee
shop owner .. or he'll find that a NAT'ted IP with multiple infected
laptops coming and going out of it might be in and out of a walled
garden all the time.
There's some vendors who concentrate on walled garden stuff - Perftech
(www.perftech.com) for example. Arbor and Sandvine too have kit that
can be used for this, I believe .. of course, at the edge of an ISP's
DSL network.
srs
