YfiTechBeta6VM

Background

• The Beta-6 Virtual Machine includes many enhancements that accumulated over the past year or more.
• Not only does this Virtual Machine makes use of the latest SVN code but it also saves you the hassle of installing and configuring everything yourself.
• This Virtual Machine makes use of the more modern Nginx web server as an alternative to Apache.
• You can download this Virtual Machine here: https://sourceforge.net/projects/hotcakes/files/VMs/
• Instructions on how to get it up and running in no time is here: Run YFi Hotspot Manager on Microsoft Windows

The rest of the page will list some if the highlights in this Virtual Macine

Browser detection

• The client's browser is automatically detected and based on the device they will get a device specific login page.
• Desktop style login page

• Mobile devices login page

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Dynamic Login Pages

• Each NAS can be assigned to a defaul realm.

• Depending on which NAS the request comes from, we can serve different content on the login page all dynamically.
• In YFi Hotspot Manager we build the image gallery that will be dynamically displayed on the login page

• In YFi Hotspot Manager we specify the Realm detail that will be dynamically displayed on the login page.

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Expiry Date for permanent users

• Permanent users now has an expiry date that can be adjusted.
• This is ideal where YFi Hotspot Manager is used to give contract workers access to the network

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Never Expire option for vouchers

• Voucher creation now has an option that allows you no never expire a voucher.

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Fixed IP Addresses

• If the need arise for you to also have a block of fixed IP Addresses along with DHCP Addresses, do the following:
• Edit the /etc/chilli/config file.

• Add these. (Use as a guideline)

  HS_DYNIP=10.1.0.129
  HS_DYNIP_MASK=255.255.255.128
  

• Use the following site to calculate start and end addresses as well as the masks:

http://www.subnet-calculator.com/subnet.php

• The above will shift the DHCP pool to only start at 10.1.0.129; allowing you to use 2-127 for devices with fixed IP Addresses.

• If you want to change the 10.1.x.y range of address to something else (e.g. 172.16.x.y); issue the following command to see where the old values were specified and where they need to be changed:

  sudo su
  cd /etc/chilli
  grep -lir '10.1.0.'
  <list of="" files="" that="" potentially="" have="" to="" be="" updated="">

  cd /usr/share/nginx/www/yfi_login/
  grep -lir '10.1.0.'

  cd /usr/share/nginx/www/coova_json/
  grep -lir '10.1.0.'

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Other info

• The following list of pages contains some advanced technical discussions which can be implemented on the Beta-6 Virtual Machine:
  • [YfiTechOpenMeshHeartbeat]
  • [YfiTechOpenMeshOpenVPN]
  • [YfiTechOpenVPNSimplified]
  • [YfiTechHeartbeat]
  • [YfiTechDynamicClients]

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