[Olsr-users] DHCP and Billing Models

[Jan Groenewald]

Hi

A lot of billing models are based on dhcp to keep track
of sessions. E.g. prepaid (data-based) via chillispot
speaking via VPN to a central radius server.

In an OLSR enviroment, one like a freifunk mesh, is there 
some way to keep track of dhcp/sessions?

1. centralised DHCP, repeated across mesh.
Sounds ridiculous even if it is feasible,
since a mesh should not be centralised, it doesn't scale,
but zeroconf via IPV6 might approach this?

2. chillispot on each node, each speaking to (multiple)
mesh radius servers. Sounds feasible?

3. Don't use IP based, use MAC-based or IP+MAC-based.
Or the question is wrong altogether. How should it be phrased?

There exists a local ISP selling prepaid per usage (data-based)
via a chillispot solution. I want to give basic free internet,
slow, shared, but free. Then resell on top. (Eventually from multiple
ISPs.) If I can port their solution to my ad-hoc mesh, we can start
to provide this.

regards,
Jan

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