4. Hotcakes

4.1.1. Problem

Hotcakes is a huge hit in your small office/suburb. Now other departments/houses also want to hook up their ChilliSpot and Mikrotik devices up to your Hotcakes server.

• You need to keep track which devices are using your Free Radius server.

• You want to kick misbehaving users of the network, no matter which Access Point they are using.

• You need to know what type of devices are on your network.

• You need a graphical indication where these devices are situated.

4.1.2. Solution

• Get a GPRS handheld device to jot down the latitude and longitude of each device which is destined to become part of your network.

• Add these devices to the 'NAS Devices' list in Hotcakes.

• On each device, specify the Free Radius server to use. Also specify the shared secret between Free Radius and the device.

• Register your Hotcakes server with Google to get a map key in order to be used outside 'localhost'