This is work in progress. Came back later.

This tutorial is about building a Wifi Hotspot or a Wifi Network for a hotel, campus, commercial center, libraries or cafe. FreeBSD will be used as a router, traffic shaper, authentication server.

 Topologies:
- multiple AP linked on ethernet LAN;
- wifi mesh network using OLSR

Depending on your needs you will choose one of those two layouts.

To complete the project we will need:
- an Internet connection to our ISP (Fiber Link, ADSL or other type of Internet connection);
- a server acting as a router with traffic shaping;
- an authentication server for our users;
- an Web Gui for user management;
- a payment system for paid wifi connections;
- a cache proxy;
- dedicated access points configured to act as nodes in a wifi mesh network (for second topology);