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Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version 09.10

This guide is for La Fonera 2201 (Fon+) and supported EnGenius Routers

Contents Firmware Installation .............................................................................................................................................................. 2

Prerequisite ..................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Installation ...................................................................................................................................................................... 2

Router Registration ................................................................................................................................................................. 4

Setting your timezone ..................................................................................................................................................... 4

Link your router to your Chillifire account ...................................................................................................................... 4

Router Configuration .............................................................................................................................................................. 6

Define a “Walled Garden” ............................................................................................................................................... 6

Define your custom splash page / homepage ................................................................................................................ 6

Change your router’s password ...................................................................................................................................... 7

Change your router’s SSID (name of the hotspot the end‐user will see) ....................................................................... 7

Add devices to the Whitelist to bypass hotspot authentication .................................................................................... 8

Change the wireless channel the Hotspot is sending on ................................................................................................ 8

Assign the Ethernet LAN connections to either Hotspot or Free Access ........................................................................ 9

Change wireless transmission settings ........................................................................................................................... 9

Establish Quality of Service (QoS) and establish maximum throughput rates ............................................................. 10

Chillifire Status, Add‐ons and Upgrades....................................................................................................................... 10

Additional Configuration ............................................................................................................................................... 11

Show Active Hotspot Connections ................................................................................................................................ 11


Firmware Installation This guide assumes you are attempting this load from Windows. Fon Flash is currently one of the easiest methods for installing Gargoyle firmware on compatible routers.

Prerequisite

On Windows you will need to first download and install WinPcap (download latest version here) . Vista users may also need to download and install MSVC++ (download latest version here).

Download the Chillifire zip file from our forum containing the firmware and all utility files. Unzip all files into the same directory as you installed WinPcap into.

Installation

Connect the Ethernet cable from the router to your computer. Connect the WAN or a LAN port to the computer. Do not connect the router to the internet.

Power off the router (unplug)

Double click ‘fon-flash-gui.exe’ which you unzipped in the previous step to start the program Note: Vista users may need to run the program as administrator.

Select Firmware Type: For Chillifire select ‘OpenWRT/Gargoyle’

Select Network Interface: Select the network interface card which is plugged into your gargoyle router

Select Rootfs file: chillifire-atheros-root.squashfs

Select Kernel file: chillifire-atheros-vmlinux.lzma

Hit the Start button

Wait 5 seconds

Power on the router

Wait 10 minutes - 30 minutes, until FonFlash reports that the router has been flashed.

Wait another 5 minutes while the router reboots. It will process the new image, reboot three times, yes, three times and configure itself. Note: If for some reason the Gargoyle firmware loader cannot install the Chillifire firmware, you will have to replace the standard boot loader with a replacement one. Please refer to the Appendix: Error! Reference source not found..

Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version 09.10 It is now save to connect the router to the internet via the WAN port. On Windows Vista (maybe also on XP and Windows 7) computers the system may not obtain an IP address automatically. This can be easily fixed by Windows’ own Repair process. Right click on the network icon in the system tray or in the Network manager, click repair network. The diagnostics offers you three choices. Go for ‘Automatically get new IP settings for the Network adapter <Network connection name>’. You may have to confirm a security authorization prompt. The system will request a new IP from the router and you are done.

Open a new browser window. Type in the address http://192.168.12.1 into the address bar of your browser and press ‘Enter’. You will be presented with the firmware’s logon screen. Enter ‘root’ as user and ‘shae-4’ as password. (You can change the password later to anything you like.) You will see the initial System Info screen, giving you details about version and status of the firmware. You were Successful! Next Step is to register the router.


Router Registration Please note: For the registration process to work your router MUST be connected to the internet and have a valid connection. If you cannot access the internet from the computer connected to the router, you are most likely not connected to the internet and this registration process will fail.

Setting your timezone

Log in to your router with your username and password. Please select the timezone that is relevant for you or the one closest to you. Selecting the timezone will automatically reschedule the daily reboot to between 3-4am of your local time. It will also determine the most appropriate Chillifire server to connect to so that your users have the fastest possible online connection facility. Press the ‘Save and Apply’ button.

Link your router to your Chillifire account

On the menu move your mouse over ‘Chillifire’, then press ‘Router Registration’. You now need to press the ‘Register Router’ button. 2. Next you will see the Chillifire login screen. If you already have an account created on our website or you are adding another router to your existing account, please type in your account name and password and press the ‘Login’ button. If you do not have an account yet, please press the ‘Signup Now’ button and create a new account (see step 3).

Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version 09.10 3. (Only if you had not yet created a Chillifire account) If you pressed the ‘Sign up now’ button, you will the Chillifire Control Panel Login screen. Choose an account name (up to 10 characters), enter the billing address details of your account (can be different to the physical address of the router(s), choose the default currency for your router(s) and finally, enter an affiliate code, if you have been given one (otherwise, leave empty). Press the ‘Register’ button on the screen and you will see a success message.

4. The system will direct you automatically to a screen that allows you to register the router against your account (regardless whether you pressed the ‘Login’ or the ‘Sign up now’ button in step 3. IMPORTANT: If you just Signed Up Now as described in step 8 be sure you activate your account first via the activation email you will receive. You cannot logon before you activated the account!

Enter the router location and press ‘Insert’. The system will return a message to confirm the successful registration of the router.

DONE!


Router Configuration This section describes how to change some configuration settings of the Chillifire Hotspot. While this list of configuration options is by no means exhaustive, it gives guidance to the most popular configuration options. All the configuration options described in this guide occur on the router. Please open your favorite browser, type http://192.168.12.1 into the browser’s address bar and press enter. You will need to log in with your user name admin and the password. The standard password is ‘shae-4’.

Define a “Walled Garden”

A ‘walled garden’ is a facility that allows hotspot users access to selected sites without having to be logged on. This makes sense if you want to give access to your own website, i.e. your hotel’s or café’s information pages. The sites the users are allowed to have access to can be defined by entering them into the allowed sites filed and pressing the green button next to the entry field. You can remove allowed sites by pressing the red removal button next to the allowed site. On the Pages tab you can allow complete websites like, say, www.google.com. On the domains tab you can allow entire domains like .google.com (including www.google.com, maps.google.com, mail .google.com etc.) Press the ‘Save and Apply’ button.

Define your custom splash page / homepage

In standard mode the Chillifire system will bring up a login page for users who have connected to the hotspot, open a browser, but are not yet logged in. However, this behavior can be changed with the Custom ‘Splash Page’ setting. Go to Chillifire->Custom Splash Page Enter your home page with the leading protocol http:// or https:// for example http://www.yourdomain.com/yourstartpage.html or https://www.yourdomain.com/yourstartpage.html You MUST include a link https://192.168.182.1:3990/prelogin into your home page. This link leads to the Login Page (if the user is connected to the hotspot network) so the hotspot user can buy tickets and can login. Press the ‘Save & Apply’ button


Change your router’s password

Go to System->Admin Password The system will prompt you to enter a new password (twice identical) for the user ‘root’. Press Subimt to save and continue.

Change your router’s SSID (name of the hotspot the end‐user will see)

Go to Network->Wireless Change the SSID to any value you like. Allowed characters are large and small letters [A…Z], [a…z], [numbers [1…9], underscores and dashes [_-]. Please do use not any other characters and spaces, as this can cause issues. We recommend leaving all other settings as is, unless you really know what you are doing. To change channels, please see point 2 below. Press the ‘Save’ button


Add devices to the Whitelist to bypass hotspot authentication

Devices that have been put on the whitelist will bypass the login procedure completely and have straight and unlimited access to the internet. The devices that are on the whitelist are defined by their MAC Address, which can be entered on the Chillifire Configuration Screen. Note: The MAC address of a device (laptop etc.) can be found on the bottom of the Chillifire login screen. Just enter the MAC address in the field and press the green ‘add’ button. Confirm your settings by pressing ‘Save &Apply’. To remove a device press the red ‘remove’ button next to it and press ‘Save & Apply’.

Change the wireless channel the Hotspot is sending on

In an area with a number of wireless networks present it can be beneficial not to allow the router to select a channel by itself, but to look for other networks present in the area, and to select a channel that is not yet used. This will avoid interference and improve signal range and clarity for the receiving clients. In a wireless extender scenario, sending and receiving on the same channels between routers is essential. Go to Network->Wifi Press the ‘Scan’ button After scanning the environment for other networks the system will give you all the other networks it found and their channels. You can now select a channel that is not yet used in your specific environment. Press the ‘Save’ button To set more sophisticated Wifi settings refer to ‘Change wireless transmission settings’ below.


Assign the Ethernet LAN connections to either Hotspot or Free Access

Go to the Administration section. Go to Network->Switch You can now assign the 4 LAN ports at the back of the router either to free internet access (VLAN0) or to Hotspot controlled paid internet access (VLAN2). The standard configuration has the inner two ports 2 and 3 assigned to the Hotspot, while ports 1 and 4 are guaranteed free internet access. We strongly recommend granting always free internet access to at least one port, preferably port 1, in case more significant repairs are required. Please observer the following rules, or you may break either specific ports or even the entire Hotspot configuration.

The Internet port must always be assigned to VLAN1 Do not assign ports 1 through to 4 to VLAN1 All VLANs must have port 5 assigned VLAN eth0.0 must have a star against it.

Violating any of these rules may cause the router to stop functioning. Press the ‘Save Settings’ button and confirm your settings by pressing ‘Save & Apply’ We recommend you reboot your router and also unplug the connected devices for at least 10 seconds before plugging them in again. This will enforce that the lease for a new IP address is enforced and that the tunnel for the chillispot connection is built up. We recommend you reboot your router.

Change wireless transmission settings

Go to the Administration portal to Network->Wifi->Wl0. There you can set transmission power and other transmission and antenna settings. The settings will depend on the router’s capabilities and drivers. Recommended standard transmission power is 20dB equating to 100mW. Please take local health and transmission regulations into account when setting this value. Press the ‘Save & Apply’ button

Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version 09.10 Establish Quality of Service (QoS) and establish maximum throughput rates

Go to Network->QoS You can set Q0S to 'Enabled' at the top of the Options section. Once that is done you have the option to set a maximum WAN upload and download speed. This will limit the speed for any connection regardless of settings you may choose as part of the Hotspot package setup. We do not recommend you manipulate the QoS firewall settings unless you have a thorough understanding of IP networking. The standard is configured to favor basic services like DNS traffic and SSH, treat web traffic as ‘Normal’ use, and treat P2P and other data intensive services as least priority. Press the ‘Save Settings’ button and confirm your settings by pressing ‘Apply Settings’

Chillifire Status, Add‐ons and Upgrades

Click on ‘Chillifire’ Here you can see the status of the Chillifire Hotspot, Restart your remote connection, force the upgrade of your router, and install additional modules. The list of add-on modules will be extended over time as requested by our client base.

Chillifire Hotspot Router Installation Guide Version 09.10 Additional Configuration

Go to the Administration section. Got to Chillifire->Additional Configuration

Here you can set the default Idle Time-out period (the period of time an inactive user session on the hotspot is ended by the router) defined in seconds. The default is set to 2600 seconds which is one hour.

Clicking the anonymous button will disable the Chillifire logon during logon.

The Time of daily reboot define when during the day (in local time) the daily reboot is performed. Default is 4am in the morning.

Show Active Hotspot Connections

Got to Chillifire->Connections

The system shows active usr connections and connected WDS routers. If users are logged in, there will be a ‘Disconnect’ link at the right hand side of the screen next to the logged in user. This button can be used to force a disconnection.

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