AuthPuppy

AP, Router, Gateway configuration question

Asked by Andre Halle

I saw this :

https://answers.launchpad.net/authpuppy/+question/186975

But if there is a crucial point among all, i think that having documentation about how authpuppy works with an wifi external device such as as an access point, gateway or router may be as important as having a working server. I didn't saw any official document about it.

I have a working authppuppy authentification server accessible as a web pages on a computer but that's all and at this point, my server doesn't have any other purposes.

My question is : Beside the wifidog documentation on how to make a connection between the server and a router (by router i also mean access point, gateway, bridge, cpe etc even if technically it is not exactlly the same), do you think that there will be an official configuration page about this.

My second question is : If i have to use the wifidog documentation to make it work, i saw that there is a "wifidog.conf" file who have everything's need to have my authpuppy auth server accessible by my DD-WRT firmware based router. Where this .conf file must be, and how it can be accessible.

If i need to make a daemon process in Debian, how can i buld a daemon ?

Thanks in advance

André

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Andrei (andrei-halle-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Finally it work partially in a sense that my authpuppy authentication server is accessible through the DD-WRT basic wifidog parameter given in the service section of my DD-WRT router. I tested it here locally, and everything is "route" to my server when the wifidog part of DD-WRT is working.

I thought that the need of Openwrt was necessary, but in fact this is firmware highly flexible as complicated to manage. It work like Linux based system (DD-WRT is linux based too) but the basic fact is that some errors would could be made just by changing any kind of setting who are not as easy to find, while in DD-WRT everything can be seen in a kind of graphic way.

The need of a wifidog/authpuppy daemon still remain obscure for me as it is describe in

http://dev.wifidog.org/browser/trunk/wifidog/wifidog.conf

There is no "services" (speaking as a windows user) needed up to now to make it work here, while a daemon is, in my own opinion, useful to be there as a kind of "connection watchdog" in this case for delivering a connection through authpuppy.

I use Debian Squeeze and i'm not sure about it, i think that i saw a bug related to Debian Lenny solved during the last two months.

Anyway, it is not so complicated as i could see it now, but there is still a lot to do to be satisfied.

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Andrei (andrei-halle-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#2

Now, that's what i have when i set my router's wifidog service to make authpuppy used as a wifi auth, portal.

I wireless connect one of my computers to this same router linked to my server.

And i have this wifidog message :

http://i49.tinypic.com/syl6c6.jpg

my router is a based on dd-wrt, that's how i configured it (based on what i saw in a page related to authpuppy :

http://i48.tinypic.com/2m28lc5.jpg

and when i try to navigate through any web place on the internet i have this :

http://i50.tinypic.com/ws85f.jpg (in this image the url i type was a link to authpuppy launchpad page)

So i don't know at this point what to do for making authpuppy work.

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Andrei (andrei-halle-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

Since this question is pending for a while and unanswered, you may closed it. I understand that i have to search on my own navigating though this site and others to complete this point. I understand that there is no one at this moment who could help and everybody is free to answer or not. We are in open source world, and may be paying a contribution may help.

So i give up on this.

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