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Alan Buxey wrote:
| ah, the joys of proprietary captive portals. we wrote our own,
which gives
| us some flexibility.
|
| historically, we have used 'home-grown' software to manage our wired
| network - and would have been probably using the same for the wireless
| until the WCS came along. you can control the WISMs via telnet/ssh and
| SNMP calls. its making the right calls that counts.
Much the same here, also :-)
| incidentally, every time i see 'home-grown', I think to myself
| "how great it'd be if we had a code collaboration system in JANET"
- - think
| sourceforge.ja.net - we could compete with many many products out
| there . we've release some stuff as GPL historically...but the
JANET(UK)
| community should think bigger on this
How about a BOF meeting at Networkshop?
My employer has a policy on open-sourcing our software, which helps
immensely. I'm grateful that someone above me in the food chain went
and spoke to the lawyers and intellectual property folks, got an
agreement, then let me get on with it with a clear conscience :-)
http://www.oucs.ox.ac.uk/internal/procedures/ossoucs.xml
http://search.cpan.org/~oliver/
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Oliver Gorwits, Network and Telecommunications Group,
Oxford University Computing Services
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