WiCap-PHP is a very simple captive portal for OpenBSD (tested on 3.5 and 3.7). Currently it is maintained by CalebPhillips, although he may get busy and abandon it like so many other projects. This page will earn content as it seems prudent, good to create it at any rate.

As of July, 2005, the most recent version is delta.

Note: delta introduces alot of new code, as such, it is less stable than previous versions. Please let me know if you discover any problems. Update 2005-10-24: I didn't lie, there was at least one serious bug, which has been squashed and will be fixed in the next release. I will do another release as soon as I have time (or if someone pokes me via email) - CalebPhillips.

Features:

• Written in 'C' for speed and portability
• (Experimental) Support for statistics-collection using RRDTool
• Inspects the ARP table to evict inactive/bad leases
• Intended to work with a change-rooted Apache

Download:

• Delta

  • http://www.smallwhitecube.com/toil/programming/files/php/wicap-php.delta.tar.gz

  • http://www.smallwhitecube.com/toil/programming/files/php/wicap-php.delta.tar.gz.md5

Old Versions:

• Gamma

  • http://www.smallwhitecube.com/toil/programming/files/php/wicap-php.gamma.tar.gz

  • http://www.smallwhitecube.com/toil/programming/files/php/wicap-php.gamma.tar.gz.md5

Documentation:

Installation instructions are maintained within the tarball, also there is a HowTo here:

http://www.smallwhitecube.com/php/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=howto:openbsdap

This will walk you through setting up an OpenBSD 3.7 access point from scratch. (based on Node597)

Project Forks:

BenjaminJencks rewrote the perl part of WiCap-PHP (version beta) in python, and made some cool improvements. Get his version here:

• http://bjencks.net/captive/captive-0.1.tar.gz

Although, his improvements made the beta version much better, delta incorporates his changes, with one exception, delta is written in C and PHP, no Python. My rationale behind this is that Python is not installed with OpenBSD 3.7 by default, and adding it takes significant space, since my Node is using a 256 MB Compact-Flash card for storage, this savings is needed. If you have Python installed, you may want to check out his fork.