ChilliSpot - Open Source Captive Portal


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Chillispot Captive Portal

ChilliSpot is an open source captive portal or wireless LAN access point controller. It is used for authenticating users of a wireless LAN. It supports web based login which is today's standard for public HotSpots. Authentication, authorization and accounting (AAA) is handled by your favorite radius server.

Binary downloads are available for Redhat, Febora, Debian, Mandrake and OpenWRT. ChilliSpot is an ebuild in Gentoo and compiles under FreeBSD. Source code under GPL is available for other platforms.

To build your own HotSpot you need the following items:

Internet connection
Wireless LAN access point
ChilliSpot software for your PC
Radius server
Web server

All the above are included in one package at HotSpot System's turnkey hotspot solution.

You can install the radius and web server on the same PC as ChilliSpot or they can be located on the Internet.

Looking for an easy HOTSPOT solution based on Chillispot? Check out Hotspot Software by HotspotSystem .

DISCLAIMER: All information, including documentation, information and binary firmware releases are copyrighted by www.chillispot.org. The goal is to provide an information source for those visitors who are looking for the Chillispot project. The Chillispot project is no longer maintained. There is a newer project, called CoovaChilli which is based on Chillispot.

News

2007-09-25 ChilliSpot website/forum revamped

ChilliSpot website as well as the forum section is alive again.

2006-09-24 ChilliSpot 1.1 released

ChilliSpot 1.1 has been released. It is a development release, with 1.0 being the stable release to use for production.
It adds the following features:

OpenBSD port Initial OpenBSD port. Thanks to Sevan / Venture37.
radiusnasip option Allows the specification of the IP address to be used for the NAS-IP-Address attribute. This was previously determined by the radiuslisten option, which is still used if the radiusnasip option is not specified. Thanks to David Bird.
radiuscalled option Allows the specification of the name to be used for the Called-Station-ID attribute. This was previously determined by the MAC address of the wireless interface, which is still used if the radiuscalled option is not specified. Thanks to David Bird.
confusername and confpassword options When these options are given ChilliSpot will query the radius server at regular intervals. Attributes returned by the radius server will override the aumallowed, macallowed and interval options. Thanks to David Bird.
conup and condown options These options allow scripts to be run when users are authenticated and disconnected. The scripts are executed with the following parameters: devicename, ip address, mask, user ip address user mac address and filter ID. A rich set of environment variables are provided as well.

See the release notes for further details.

Old News

2005-09-23 ChilliSpot 1.0 released

ChilliSpot 1.0 has been released. It corrects the following bugs:

Macallowed and uamallowed options can be specified multiple times ChilliSpot now accepts multiple lines with macallowed or uamallowed in the configuration file or multiple times at the command line. Thanks to David Bird and for the initial implementation, and Lorenzo Bettini for upgrading Gengetopt to support long lines.
Improved IP allocation after restart for MAC authenticated users Users which have been authenticated on the bases of MAC address will now be re-authenticated straight after a ChilliSpot reboot.

Furthermore copyright statement and credits have been included with the program.
See the release notes for further details.

2005-07-16 ChilliSpot Logo

The winner of the logo competition has been selected.

Congratulations to Josh from Lockstock and thanks to everybody else who participated in the competition. Special thanks to Stefan Lengacher for arranging the competition

The new logo is displayed on the home page as well as the forum.

2005-04-03 ChilliSpot 1.0 RC3 released

ChilliSpot 1.0 RC3 has been released. It corrects the following bugs:

Improved IP allocation after restart
Improved Skype compatibility
Better parsing of --uamserver and --uamhomepage options Thanks to Drew S. Dupont.
Daemon will now write debug output
Corrected memcpy bug on --uamallowed option Thanks to Jerome Heulot.
Improved redundant radius retry

Furthermore a new --radiusnasporttype option has been added which specifies the NAS-Port-Type radius attribute to use.

See the release notes for further details.

2005-02-28 ChilliSpot 1.0 RC2 released

ChilliSpot 1.0 RC2 has been released. It corrects the following bugs:

Errors when run as daemon A bug introduced in 1.0 RC1 caused a number of problems when run in the background. This affected Session-Time and other features.
ChilliSpot-Max-Total-Octets This attribute now works as intended.

2005-02-06 ChilliSpot 1.0 RC1 released

ChilliSpot 1.0 RC1 has been released. New features include:

Radius volume limit attributes.
Native EAPOL.
HUP and periodic re-reading of configuration file.

2004-12-29 ChilliSpot 0.99 released

ChilliSpot 0.99 has been released. New features include:

WISPr Appendix D compliance.
Radius Disconnect support.
RFC 3585 style MAC addresses
MAC address forwarded to UAM server.
MAC authentication limited to specific MAC addresses.
Initial FreeBSD port.
Bug fixes and quality assurance on source code.

2004-11-12: Mandrake RPM available

ChilliSpot binary RPMs for Mandrake are now available, and can be downloaded from mandrakeclub.com (members only) or one of the mirrors.

To install on Mandrake Linux Cooker you simply type:

rpm -Uvh chillispot-0.98-1mdk.i586.rpm

urpmi chillispot

For configuration you can use the instructions for RedHat in the release notes as a starting point.

Thanks to Oden Eriksson - MandrakeSoft

2004-11-03 ChilliSpot 0.98 released

ChilliSpot 0.98 has been released. It includes bug fixes for the following:

Session-Timeout and accounting record bug.
MAC Authentication static IP bug.

Please see the release notes for further details.

2004-09-27 ChilliSpot 0.97 released

ChilliSpot 0.97 has been released. New features include:

Free Radius Hosting.
Improved hotspotlogin.cgi.
New radius attributes.

Please see the release notes for further details.

2004-08-23 ChilliSpot 0.96 released

ChilliSpot 0.96 has been released. New features include:

MAC authentication with static IP address allocation.
Source code review, bug fixes and additional logging.

Thanks to Alexander Papadakis and Vladimir Vuksan.

2004-07-12 ChilliSpot 0.95 released

ChilliSpot 0.95 has been released. New features include:

Browsing some web sites without authenticating. Thanks to Dan Strohschein.
Improved makefiles. Thanks to Ned Ludd.
More information to perl cgi script: User-Name, Session-Timeout as well as the original URL.
Improved network interface configuration.

2004-07-08: Gentoo ebuild.

ChilliSpot is now an ebuild in Gentoo.

Gentoo users wishing to fetch, compile and install Chillispot simply need to type:

emerge chillispot

While the package is in the testing stage users will either have to add the proper ~arch keyword to the local /etc/make.conf or export it via an

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86" emerge chillispot

ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~mips" emerge chillispot

Thanks to Ned Lud.

2004-06-22: ChilliSpot 0.94 released

ChilliSpot 0.94 has been released. New features include:

Initial OpenWRT port.
Improved browser compatibility.
New radius configuration options.

2004-06-11: ChilliSpot 0.93 released

ChilliSpot 0.93 has been released. New features include:

Radius Reply-Message fully implemented.
Better error handling.
Gracious shutdown.

2004-05-27: Forum and mailing list

ChilliSpot now has a forum for general discussions as well as a mailing list for developers and announcements. Feel free to join the forum.

2004-05-18: ChilliSpot 0.92 updated

A bug caused chilli to limit the bandwidth to zero if the WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Up and WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Down attributes were not present in the Radius Access-Reply message.

The old ChilliSpot 0.92 has been been removed, and a new one with timestamp 2004-05-18 has been uploaded. If you downloaded ChilliSpot 0.92 between May 17 and May 18 you should download the updated version.

2004-05-17: ChilliSpot 0.92 released

ChilliSpot 0.92 has been released. New features include:

Session-Timeout, Idle-Timeout and WISPr radius attributes.
Bug fix: User will now actually be logged out when pressing "Logout".

2004-05-10: ChilliSpot 0.91 released

ChilliSpot 0.91 has been released. New features include:

Interim accounting.
New cgi script with popup logout window.
Chilli no longer generates error messages when not using WPA.

2004-04-05: ChilliSpot 0.90 released

ChilliSpot 0.90 has been released. This is the first release of ChilliSpot as open source.