HotEx RADIUS Manager Installation Guide
HotEx RADIUS Manager Installation Guide
HotEx RADIUS Manager Installation Guide
Installation Guide
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Table of Contents
About this guide 4
Intended Audience ........................................................................................................................... 5 Purpose of this Guide....................................................................................................................... 5 Typographical Conventions ............................................................................................................. 5 Typeface .......................................................................................................................................... 5 Meaning ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Customer Support ............................................................................................................................ 5
Network Setup........................................................................................... 7 Installing hotEx RADIUS Manager ........................................................... 8 Assign IP Address .................................................................................. 18 To check the Internet connectivity ........................................................ 22 Installation (hotspot client gateway) 27
Intended Audience
This guide is intended as an installation manual for the administrators, the agents and the clients on how to install the hotEx RADIUS Manager application.
Typographical Conventions
Before starting, it is important to understand the typographical conventions used in this guide.
TABLE 1: TYPOGRAPHICAL CONVENTIONS
Typeface
Bold
Meaning
Menu items, input fields, radio button names, check boxes, drop-down lists, tab names, buttons on the screen.
CAPS Quotes
Keys on the keyboard. Messages displayed on the screen. Note: A note that calls attention to a topic with related information.
Customer Support
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Chapter 1
Installation (RADIUS Manager)
Before you install hotEx RADIUS Manager, you must properly check the system requirements.
System Requirements
Hardware requirement
Linux Cent OS compatible Pentium 4 or equivalent 2GB RAM (recommended) Ethernet Card 40GB Hard Disk (minimum requirement) CD-Drive Preferably a Public Static IP
Software requirement
hotEx RADIUS Manager Installation CD The hotEx RADIUS Manager Installation CD will format the hard disk and install necessary Operating System and modules. You need to dedicate this as a hotspot server and you cannot use this for any other purpose. You do not need any external third party software or Operating System during installation. It is preferred that you allocate a Public Static IP to be assigned to this hotspot server.
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Network Setup
The following diagram illustrates the network setup for the hotEx RADIUS Manager.
The hotEx RADIUS Manager server is connected to the Internet. All the wired and WiFi clients, from all the hotspot locations will be authenticated by this server.
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Warning: The installation CD will completely format your hard disk. You will lose all data in the hard disk. Please backup the hard disk before use, if necessary. Please also ensure that this hard disk is having only one partition.
To start the installation 1. Insert the hotEx RADIUS Manager Installation CD. You will see the Welcome to hotEx RADIUS Manager Software Installation screen as below. Press ENTER to continue the installation. You will see the screens as below.
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After the installation, the server will reboot and you will see the welcome screen as below. Please ignore the login prompt because it is not necessary for you.
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Connect a Laptop/PC in the same network attached to the hotspot server. The default IP Number of the server is 192.168.1.55 (subnet 255.255.255.0). Set the IP of this Laptop/PC in the same network (eg. 192.168.1.100/255.255.255.0). Please try http://192.168.1.55/admin in the browser. You will be prompted to enter Username and Password.
Enter the User name (default is admin) and Password (default is admin) and click Ok.
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Typical Network Diagram illustrating how to connect an Administrator PC/Laptop to setup hotEx RADIUS Manager
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You will now see the web admin control panel of hotEx RADIUS Manager.
Assign IP Address
The default IP number assigned to the hotspot server is 192.168.1.55. You can change this IP Number as below.
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Goto the Main Screen. Clicking on the left top Home button will bring you to the Main-Screen always. Get into the screen as below. Home -> Miscellaneous -> IP Setting -> WAN IP Setting -> Assign Static IP for WAN Interface.
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Note: Use WAN IP Address, when you configure Hotspot Client Gateway
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The new IP number will be effective only after rebooting. To reboot, click Reboot.
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Please wait until it reboots and you see the login screen.
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You will get the SUCCESSFUL PING RESULTS, if the hotspot server is connected to Internet.
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Goto HOME, select the menu Miscellaneous -> NAS. You will see the Add NAS screen. NAS is an acronym for Network Access Server (in our case, it is the LinkSys router in each hotspot location). Enter the Domain Name or IP Number and Secret, of the hotspot location and click Add.
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Note: If the hotspot location does not have a Public Static IP number or domain name, you may enter 0.0.0.0/0 .
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Before you install hotspot client gateway, please check for the below system requirements.
System Requirements
Hardware requirement
LinkSys WiFi Router (Model WRT54GL) Laptop/PC (for initial Setup only)
Software requirement
Openwrt Firmware RADIUS Client Configuration File
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Please download the Openwrt firmware from http://hotspotexpress.in/ispot/openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin And RADIUS Client configurations file from http://hotspotexpress.in/ispot/config.tgz and save them in your desktop.
You are going to connect LinkSys Router with the Laptop/PC through WiFi. No other software or Operating System is necessary.
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Network Setup
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1. After Setup the LinkSys, Open the browser (eg: Internet Explorer) and enter the ip 192.168.1.1. You will see the login prompt. Type the User name and Password (default password is admin) and Click Ok.
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3. To upgrade the firmware, Please use the menu, Administration and get the screen as below.
Firmware Upgrade
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4. Click browse, select the file (dd-wrt.v23_wrt54g) which you have already download, from http://hotspotexpress.in/ispot/ openwrt-wrt54g-squashfs.bin.
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6. After 3-4 minutes, you will see the message Upgrade Successfully. (It is very important to wait for this message. Do not go further until you see this message), Click Continue.
7. Open the browser and tries 192.168.1.1. You will see DD-WRT control panel page. Click the menu-tab on the page; you will see the login prompt page.
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10. Go to Administration
Backup.
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Enter your hotEx RADIUS Manager Server IP address. Preferably, this would be a Public Static IP Enter the DNS Server IP Address of the ISP of the client hotspot location
Note: 1. The Primary RADIUS Server IP must be the same with the menu of hotEx RADIUS Manager -> HOME->IP Setting -> WAN Interface Static ip settings -> WAN IP ADDRESS
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14. Open the browser and try to access a webpage (eg. google.com). You will see the hotspot server welcome page.
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17. You will see the message Logged in successfully and see the timer window.
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18. Now, you are logged in successfully and you can start using Internet.
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