CoovaChilli is an open-source captive portal system for linux that I personally use to run a free wireless access system around my area. The reason I use coovachilli instead of, oh I don’t know, nocatspash, is that with CoovaChilli I can not only limit speed per each connection, but I am also able to log IP and MAC Address’s to prevent abuse. So, lets go install coovachilli.

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To start, you need a Fresh Ubuntu 12.04.2 LTS i386 server install on a server with 2 physical network ports. (or VLANS, but that won’t be covered in this)

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So, first off open up /etc/network/interfaces and make sure that you have one NIC with a static IP. This is the IP coovachilli will run off of as a server. Here is what I used:

The next thing you need to do is enable packet forwarding and NAT between the interfaces, so I added the following code:

Free install minecraft 1.8. And in the end, I ended up with this:

And thats it for interface setup.

To make sure packet forwarding is enabled, I also enable it from /etc/sysctrl.conf. To do that, you just need to run this command

Now to install freeradius, as I use a radius server for user authentication with coovachilli. We will also install some library’s used by coovachilli.

Now we need to set it up. open up /etc/freeradius/clients.conf and change the secret from “testing123” to a secure password that you will remember.

Now for adding users to freeradius. What I do is I delete the file /etc/freeradius/users and just create a new file, and start fresh. Here is the format used for user accounts:

so as you can guess useraccountname is the name of the user, and userpass1 is the password for that account. For the rest of the stuff

Simultaneous-Use = How many times the same account can be logged in at once.
Idle-Timeout = How long it will wait to logout the user after idling, in seconds.
Acct-Interm-Interval = the number of seconds between each interim update in seconds for a specific session.
WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Down = The max allowed download speed, in bits (not kilobits)
WISPr-Bandwidth-Max-Up = The max allowed upload speed, in bits

So with this, create as many users as you want to use. If you don’t want to limit a users speed, or timeout, then just don’t add those lines to that user and it won’t apply.

Next up is testing. restart the freeradius service, and then test the account you made to make sure it authenticates. So, for our above example, we would do the following:

Where SecretCode is the secret we changed in freeradius earlier in this tutorial. If everything worked, you should get some output like this:

This means the user was authenticated successfully, and freeradius is now setup!

Now for the fun part, coovachilli. So, download the precompiled package and install it.

Now that its installed, we need to configure it before we enable it. To do this, copy the defaults to the config file Dvd free studio offline installer download.

From here, edit /etc/chilli/config to whatever you have setup. Just make sure to uncomment HS_WANIF=eth0 so it knows where to look for the WAN interface, and you place the freeradius secret in HS_RADSECRET otherwise it won’t be able to authenticate users.

Now you can enable coovachilli by opening /etc/defaults/chilli and set boot to 1

From here, do a restart and coovachilli should be running! If not, stop the service, and use the following to start coovachilli in debug mode to see what is going on.

PERSONAL NOTE
I personally have never used the default coovachilli portal program, so if you plan on using it, this tutorial may not work with the configuration part, but it will get you a working coovachilli install.

Hope this helps some of you out there!

Introduction

The RADIUSdesk project initially started with FreeRADIUS version 2.x since it was the latest version of FreeRADIUS at that time.
We used a non-standard / non-supported module called rlm_raw to handle Dynamic Clients.
With the intruduction of FreeRADIUS version 3.x we will use a more correct approach and do away with the use of the rlm_raw module.
This will save us the trouble of compiling our own version of FreeRADIUS.

Upgrading from FreeRADIUS version 2.x

Please consider the implications when you upgrade and consider if it will be easy for you to make the required changes if there are any.
These only apply if you used rlm_raw and Dynamic Clients.

Implications of an upgrade

With FreeRADIUS 3 we will use a common shared secret for ALL the clients.
You can decide what it will be and by editing the /etc/freeradius/sites-enabled/dynamic-clients file you can specify it.
If you have existing Dynamic Clients on your current install each having a unique shared secret you need to change that so that they all have the same shared secret and this corresponds to the one specified in the dynamic-clients file.

We assume you upgraded the RADIUSdesk code to be on the latest version from SVN before taking these steps.
We also assume you applied all the database patches as listed in the upgrade page.

After you did that you need to migrate the existing Dynamic Clients to the new dedicated Dynamic Clients applet.

Issue the following commands to stop and remove that install:

Finally make sure you did patch your existing SQL database with the rd_dynamic_clients.sql patch. (You can run this patch multiple times since it is non destructive)

Congratualations! Now you can go ahead and do the upgrade to FreeRADIUS version 3 as specified in the next section.

Installing FreeRADIUS version 3.x

Ubuntu is still sticking with FreeRADIUS version 2.x even with the 16.04 LTS release.
Fortunately adding the repository with the version 3.x packages of FreeRADIUS is a snap and super easy.
Add the Personal Package Archive (PPA) for the version 3 of FreeRADIUS.

Configuring FreeRADIUS version 3.x

Do the following to configure FreeRADIUS 3.x to work with RADIUSdesk

Configure the site wide shared secret. This will be the value used by ALL Dynamic Clients.

Look for this part in t

Table of Contents

Introduction

Upgrading from FreeRADIUS version 2.x

Implications of an upgrade

Installing FreeRADIUS version 3.x

Configuring FreeRADIUS version 3.x

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