Kids Adventure - Playing Mini Golf

The mini golf or miniature golf is the favorite game of my kids whenever they visit to park the first thing they start with is playing the mini golf. Although they do not know all the rules of golf but they know how play and what to do.

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RADIUSdesk - Connect MikroTik Hotspot as Radius Client #3

Here I will show the usage of RADIUSdesk as hotspot. The RADIUSdesk come equipped with Coova chilli hotspot installed. I will try it with windows XP VM. Then I will show you how to use it with MikroTik Hotspot and Radius Client where the hotspot will be authenticated from RADIUSdesk. I assume you have already followed my previous tutorial and have the Know how of MikroTik as well. So lets get to work :)

MikroTik Part

1. Open your MikroTik using winbox
2. Click on Radius->incomming and enable “Accept” and then click OK
3. Now in the Radius window click on + sign, this will open up New Radius Server window
4. Enable hotspot and enter the IP address of YOUR RADIUSdesk (192.168.1.13 in my case) and Secret (123 in my case) then click OK
5. Now goto IP->Hotspot this will open up the hotspot window
6. Click on “Server Profile” tab and then double click “hsprof#” some like that which will open up the hotspot server profile
7. Now click on RADIUS tab and enable “Use RADIUS” and click OK
8. That’s it with MikroTik Part

RADIUSdesk Part

1. Open your RADIUSdesk in browser using YOUR_IP/rd (192.168.1.13/rd ) in my case
2. Click on Menu->NAS Devices->NAS Devices, this will open up the NAS Devices window
3. Click on + sign and it will open up “Add NAS device” window
4. Select the Owner and click Next
5. You will see “Connection Type” on next screen with Direct (Fixed IP) already selected so click Next 
6. On the next screen Enter the IP Address, Name and Secret (192.168.1.14, MikroTik and 123) in my case and Click Next. Here note that both RADIUSdesk and MikroTik are same LAN or They must have a public IP
7. On the next screen select the Realms you want connect with also there is option of “Make available to sub-providers” and “Make available to any Realms”. So do study and test and trail it what you are doing or want to do. Click Next 
8. Now Select the created NAS device and click Edit
9. This will open up the detail to edit, click on “Optional info” enter the NAS-identifier value as MikroTik (same as identity of MikroTik), select type as “MikroTik”
10. Now Click Monitor Settings and select Monitor method as “Ping”
11. on Enhancements you can set additional setting if you feel but not necessary
12. Click save and we are done now create a test user/voucher and test it

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RADIUSdesk VM Coova Hotspot Testing on Windows XP #2

Here we will learn the usage of RADIUSdesk as hotspot. The RADIUSdesk come equipped with Coova chilli hotspot installed. The Coova Captive portal/ hotspot run on LAN port of the RADIUSdesk. We will try it with Microsoft Windows XP VM on VMWare Workstation. The User when browse will be redirected to Coova Captive portal for login. I assume you have already followed my previous tutorial and have the Know how of MikroTik as well. So lets get to work :)

1. Connect the Windows XP VM to RADIUSdesk server LAN port 
2. You will get an IP of 10.x.x.x which means you are connected to Coova captive portal 
3. Now open your favorite browser and browse any website. Note: some time you are not redirected to login page while you browse https:// site. So try a non https:// site to get the login page. 
4. Login with username / password we created in last video 
5. That’s it. Enjoy

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RADIUSdesk - Install FreeRadius Ubuntu 16 Server VM Machine on VMWare WorkStation #1

Today I am going to show you how to install the RADIUSdesk VM on VMWare workstation on windows 8. In this series will be going to discover different feature of the RADIUSdesk. This is free Open Source FreeRadius web interface developed by dvdwalt, petravdw.

FreeRADIUS RADIUSdesk offers:

• A Modern dashboard for freeradius that is easy to navigate
• Easy to use API with third party integration
• Login pages applet for central hotspot login page management.
• Support Social Login (Facebook, Google+ etc) integration for CoovaChilli and MikroTik. 
• BYOD device manager for any enterprise.
• Rights management for Realm and Managers.
• Extensive usage graphs for fine grained trend analysis and capacity planning.
• i18n. Easy translations. Also supporting rtl languages
• Advanced debug trace applet to allow real-time debug traces on FreeRADIUS by using Websocket. 
• MESHdesk applet that helps to set-up, manage and monitor Batman-adv Wireless mesh networks
  
•  Google Map Integration to show actual position of Wireless Mesh Nodes

It can be downloaded from sourceforge. I will am going to show you the install VM ova file which has RADIUSdesk pre installed and config on UBUNTU 16.04 Server by the developer. I will show how to import it in your test environment and how to use it with different Radius Clients.

I assume that you are already familiar with basic how know of Windows 8 and VMWare workstation or VirtualBox. So lets get to work :)

1. Goto sourceforge and download the RADIUSdesk VM.
2. Unzip it if it is in the .tar format or leave as it is if .ova format
3. Open VMWare Workstation and goto file -> open...
4. Select and open the .ova or .ovf file of RADIUSdesk VM from the dialog box
5. Wait for few minutes to complete the import
6. Once import completes, setup the Network in VMWare, normally the first adopter is WAN port in RADIUSdesk VM, It is configured as DHCP client so make sure you setup this port on a DHCP to get IP.
7. Power on the RADIUSdesk VM, the first boot takes a bit time, so be patient.
8. Once you see the login prompt enter default login as username = system and password = admin 
9. Type "ifconfig" without quotes on command line to check your IP address on VM machine
10. Now open your favorite browser and enter "YOUR_IP" or "YOUR_IP/rd" in address bar and press enter
11. The default login for the web UI of RADIUSdesk is username = root and password = admin
12. Waala .... we are done

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WiFi Mesh Network - Deploy Community Based WiFi Network with Commotion # 2

In previous post We have learn and install the commotion firmware on UBNT Bullet M2. Here i am going to show you the initial setup when you first login to the router. Before starting the configuration you must know following as these are very important when extending your WiFi Mesh network in future.

1. Network Name - What is name of your Network? like MyNet, MyMesh, CommunityMesh etc
2. Node Name - What is name of this Node? like MyMesh-AP1 etc
3. Admin password - will be used to login to a specific Node or AP for administration.
4. AP Password - Used by clients and user to connect to AP. Its a security key
5. WiFi Channel - The channel on which the Mesh will work. It should be same on all AP in the Mesh. Dual radio AP can have separate channel on Both Radio as they can work on different frequencies band. i.e 2.4GHz and 5GHz 

All these information need to be decided before head and properly noted for future reference and expansion of your Mesh network.
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WiFi Mesh Network - Deploy Community Based WiFi Network with Commotion # 1

There are lots of Mesh Firmware available on the net. Some are free and some paid. Mesh Network is the easy way to deploy the WiFi network in shortest possible time and resources. Here I will try cover the step involve in setting up your Wireless Mesh Network in a community using Commotion Firmware. Commotion is an Open Source Firmware available for a verity of low cost Routers and Access points. It can also used on verity of devices such as smart phone, Laptop, PC etc which becomes part of your MESH. It is basically developed for deploying WiFi mesh in emergency and disaster management. You can check the firmware for your router on commotionwireless.net.
I will install the firmware on UBNT Bullet M2 in this Tutorial.

1. Download the firmware for your router or access point from commotionwireless.net
2. Set the Static IP address on your PC or Laptop i.e 192.168.1.254 as in my case.
3. Connect your router via ethernet cable. Don't use WiFi connection.
4. Login to your router.
5. Goto System and browse for firmware file to upload and update it.
6. Wait for a movement to complete the firmware update.
7. After complete change your IP address setting to Obtain IP Automatically.
8. Open the browser and enter http://thisnode or IP address of node/ access point.
9. You will see the initial configuration page. Done !!!

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