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Dansguardian is a content filtering tool that makes sure inappropriate content isn’t served via your hotspot. That’s where the included DansGuardian tool comes into play. In a nutshell, it is a gateway authentication server.Īuthentication is of course only a small part of the wireless hotspot battle. The whole reason to download ZoneCD is for the Wi-Fi tools, which include NoCat, a tool that has been covered in here before. But, that’s not why you’re reading this article is it? Related Articles So if you wanted to, you could use your gateway machine as reasonably equipped Linux workstation as well. The GUI version of the bootable CD contains Linux Kernel 2.4.x, the XFce GUI, and a few other non-Wi-Fi tools that are part of the core Morphix distribution along with Gimp (image manipulation), GAIM (instant messenger), ABIWord (word processor) and Mozilla Firebird (Web browser). You can store and load your ID from a floppy, which is something that I highly recommend. Thus it can’t save or modify that data, hence the need for the virtual Authserver. As a CD-ROM, by definition it’s read-only.
You’ll also need to sign up for a free ZoneID from Public IP which is what identifies the gateway to something called the virtual Authserver that handles user privileges and tracks usage. To run ZoneCD, Public IP recommends any Intel compatible CPU (I’d say a Pentium 166MHz is the minimum) with a minimum of 128 MB of RAM, CD-ROM, network interface cards (NIC’s, Public IP recommend two of them, though it’s possible to get by with just one if you really wanted to) and of course some manner of Wi-Fi access point (AP) or wireless router. The ZoneCD project is licensed under the GPL and is a re-mastered version of the Morphix Linux Distribution, which is based on the Knoppix Live Linux CD distribution (itself based on the Debian Linux distribution.
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The current full GUI version comes in at just under 300 MB.
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You can get the ZoneCD by ordering it from Public IP for $10 or you can simply download it for free from the one of the project’s SourceForge mirrors. The CD, with the help of some Linux tricks, automatically detects and configures itself to run on your hardware. This makes it risk free to try without messing up an existing computer. No mess, no fuss.Ī live Linux CD like ZoneCD runs entirely from the CD, utilizing system memory and does not require any invasive installation on the user’s hard drive. ZoneCD is essentially a Wi-Fi gateway/ Hotspot on a bootable CD-ROM solution. The two paragraphs that I had in that article could hardly do the project much justice. In my overview of open source hotspot tools, I briefly touched on Public IP’s ZoneCD.
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Planning a free hotspot, but don’t want to pay through the nose for equipment? Why pay at all if you’ve got an old PC that can run this bootable CD, Linux-based alternative.Ĭreating a freely obtainable and easily deployed hotspot is a bit more involved than getting a coat hanger and putting some tin foil around it - though it hardly needs to be more expensive.
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