FON Hotspot on La Fonera

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== Configure FON heartbeat == == Configure FON heartbeat ==

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Running a FON Hotspot with DD-WRT on La Fonera

The existing FON Hotspot guide apparently doesn't apply to the original La Fonera; this page documents setting a La Fonera up as a FON Hotspot, using the latest DD-WRT firmware as of September 2010. It is presently a work in progress.

Since that guide was written, there have been many updates to the DD-WRT firmware

Assumptions

Configure wireless interfaces

Set up the public FON SSID on the physical interface ath0 and put your private SSID on ath0.1; it needs to be this way around thanks to a 'gotcha' in ChilliSpot - when we tell it to separate WiFi from the LAN bridge, that means it takes the physical interface ath0 out of the LAN bridge br0 every time ChilliSpot starts, so you can't have your private network on ath0 without ChilliSpot breaking it. So, we'll put the public SSID on ath0 and the private SSID on ath0.1; that way we can keep the private network bridged to eth0 and unbridge the public one.

Configure bridged networking

Using the Wifi in unbridged mode is not recommended, and using ChilliSpot in bridged mode will not achieve what we want, so the answer is a system of two bridges. Under Setup -> Networking, create a new bridge 'br1' and assign ath0 to it, then assign eth0 and ath0.1 to the existing bridge br0.

Your bridging table should end up looking like:

br1 no ath0

br0 no eth0 ath0.1

Configure ChilliSpot via DD-WRT GUI

Configure firewall & test access

Configure FON heartbeat