> If someone can come up with something that isn't hackery, is not 100% > Linux based (I have this issue with Linux - sorry, sometimes my > opinion on this outweighs logic - again, sorry), and works in a way > that allows real people real control over things, I'll offer up > bandwidth and colocation to get it done. > > Currently, I have seen nothing that isn't hackery or completely Linux > biased. Well, linux is a great platform to develop most of this stuff on, and most of the software out there is already written for linux. However, I've been using some Netscreen firewalls lately, and for logging, authentication, qos, traffic shaping, and access control (including scheduled access control), they are probably the perfect thing for this. Their cheapest model is the 5xp at $495 (the most expensive is over $100k). I have one here at home and it's more than enough for this. That little 5xp has more features than a $30,000 cisco PIX. Just plug your AP into one side, and your net connection into the other. If you're trying to save money, a linux solution might be the way to go, but $495 is probably what you'd spend on the hardware to run linux on anyway. Personally, if we were going to use a general purpose OS for this, I'd rather use FreeBSD. Jay