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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

Installation (RADIUS Manager) 6

System Requirements ..............................................................................6

Hardware requirement ..................................................................................................................... 6

Software requirement....................................................................................................................... 6

Network Setup...........................................................................................7

Installing hotEx RADIUS Manager ...........................................................8

Assign IP Address ..................................................................................18

To check the Internet connectivity ........................................................22

Installation (hotspot client gateway) 27

System Requirements ............................................................................27

Hardware requirement ................................................................................................................... 27

Software requirement..................................................................................................................... 27

Network Setup.........................................................................................28

Installing hotspot client gateway...........................................................29

About this guide


About this guide

This section includes the following topics:

�� Intended Audience

�� Purpose of this Guide

�� Typographical Conventions

�� Customer Support

About this guide

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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.

Purpose of this Guide

This guide describes the step-by-step installation process of 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 Meaning

Bold Menu items, input fields, radio button names, check boxes, drop-down lists, tab

names, buttons on the screen.

CAPS Keys on the keyboard.

“Quotes” Messages displayed on the screen.

Note: A note that calls attention to a topic with related information.

Warning: An Important message not to be ignored.

Customer Support

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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.

Chapter 1

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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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Installing hotEx RADIUS Manager

Insert the hotEx RADIUS Manager Installation CD and configure as shown below. We will call this server as ‘hotspot server’ for convenience throughout this guide.

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.

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.

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2. To initialise the new partitions, click yes.

3. Select the appropriate ‘Time Zone’ and click OK.

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4. 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.

5. 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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6. 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.

1. 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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2. Enter your required IP Number and Click Update.

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Note:

Use WAN IP Address, when you configure Hotspot Client Gateway

3. The new IP number will be effective only after rebooting. To reboot, click ‘Reboot’.

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4. Please wait until it reboots and you see the login screen.

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To check the Internet connectivity

1. Goto the Main Screen selects the menu Miscellaneous -> Internet Connectivity. You will

see the menu Test Internet Connectivity. You may enter any valid Internet domain name or

IP Address (eg. Yahoo.com) and click PING.

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2. You will get the SUCCESSFUL PING RESULTS, if the hotspot server is connected to

Internet.

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3. 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 ”.

4. NAS Location is added.

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5. Goto HOME, click Shutdown -> Reboot to effect the changes.

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Installation (hotspot client gateway)

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

You are going to connect LinkSys Router with the Laptop/PC through WiFi. No other software or

Operating System is necessary.

Note:

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.

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Network Setup

Typical Network Diagram illustrating Hotspot Client Gateway

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Installing hotspot client gateway

� You are now going to convert LinkSys router as a hotspot client gateway, using the

Laptop/PC.

� Switch on the LinkSys router.

� Ensure the WiFi network adapter of the Laptop/PC is enabled and working, and set it in

DHCP Mode (i.e., ‘Obtain IP Address Automatically) as shown below.

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.

2. You will see the Setup screen as below.

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3. To upgrade the firmware, Please use the menu, ‘Administration � Firmware Upgrade’

and get the screen as below.

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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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5. Click Upgrade and ensure that there is NO INTERRUPTION DURING UPGRADE.

Please do NOT turn off the power or press the reset button during upgradation.

Otherwise, the LinkSys may go corrupted.

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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8. After login, you will see as below.

9. Click Base Setup, you will see as below.

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10. Go to Administration � Backup.

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11. Choose the file (filename: RADIUS Client Config file), which was already downloaded

from http://hotspotexpress.in/ispot/config.tgz.

12. Click Restore.

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13. You will see as below.

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”

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

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2. The shared key highlighted in this screen, must be the

same, with the menu of "hotEx RADIUS Manager -> HOME ->

ADD NAS -> NAS Client Location -> SECRET"

14. Open the browser and try to access a webpage (eg. google.com). You will see the hotspot

server welcome page.

15. Click Login, you will see as below.

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16. Enter username and password, Click Login.

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.

19. To logout, please enter “ http://exit ” or “ http://logout ” in the browser.

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