chilli
is a Wireless LAN HotSpot Controller. It supports of two different
access methods for a Wireless LAN HotSpot: Universal Access Method
(UAM) as well as Wireless Protected Access (WPA)
chilli
has three major interfaces: A downlink interface for accepting
connections from clients, a radius interface for authenticating
clients and an uplink network interface for forwarding traffic to
other networks.
Authentication of clients is performed by an external radius
server. For UAM the CHAP-Challenge and CHAP-Password as specified by
RFC 2865 is used. For WPA the radius EAP-Message attribute as defined
in RFC 2869 is used. The message attributes described in RFC 2548 are
used for transferring encryption keys from the radius server to
chilli. Furthermore the radius interface supports accounting.
The downlink interface accepts DHCP and ARP requests from clients. The
client can be in two states: Unauthenticated and authenticated. In
unauthenticated state web requests from the client are redirected to
an authentication web server.
In a typical application unauthenticated clients will be forwarded to
a web server and prompted for username and password. The web
server forwards the user credentials to
chilli
by means of redirecting the web browser to chilli. A received
authentication request is forwarded to a radius server. If
authentication is successful the state of the client is changed to
authenticated. This authentication method is known as Universal Access
Method (UAM).
As an alternative to UAM the access points can be configured to
authenticate the clients by using Wireless Protected Access (WPA). In
this case authentication credentials are forwarded from the access
point to
chilli
by using the radius protocol. The received radius request is proxied by
chilli
and forwarded to the radius server.
The uplink interface is implemented by using the
TUN/TAP driver.
When
chilli
is started a tun interface is established, and optionally an external
configuration script is called.
Runtime errors are reported using the
syslogd (8)
facility.
OPTIONS
--help
Print help and exit.
--version
Print version and exit.
--fg
Run in foreground (default = off)
--debug
Run in debug mode (default = off)
--conf file
Read configuration
file
(default = /etc/chilli.conf) where each line corresponds to one command
line option, but with the leading '--' removed. Command line options
override the options given in the configuration file.
--interval seconds
Re-read configuration file and do DNS lookups every interval
seconds. This has the same effect as sending the HUP signal. If
--interval
is 0 (zero) this feature is disabled.
file
(default = /etc/chilli.conf) where each line corresponds to one command
line option, but with the leading '--' removed. Command line options
override the options given in the configuration file.
--pidfile file
Filename of process id
file
(default = /var/run/chilli.pid)
--statedir path
path
to directory of nonvolatile data (default = /var/lib/chilli/)
--net net
Network address of the uplink interface (default = 192.168.182.0/24). The
network address is set during initialisation when
chilli
establishes a tun device for the uplink interface. The network address
is specified as either <address>/<netmask> (192.168.182.0/255.255.255.0)
or <address>/<prefix> (192.168.182.0/24).
--dynip net
Dynamic IP address pool. Specifies a pool of dynamic IP addresses. If
this option is omitted the network address specified by the
--net
option is used for dynamic IP address allocation. See the
--net
option for a description of the network address format.
--statip net
Static IP address pool. Specifies a pool of static IP addresses. With
static address allocation the IP address of the client can be
specified by the radius server. Static address allocation can be used
for both MAC authentication and Wireless Protected Access.
--dns1 host
DNS Server 1. It is used to inform the client about the DNS address to
use for host name resolution. If this option is not given the system
primary DNS is used.
--dns2 host
DNS Server 2. It is used to inform the client about the DNS address to
use for host name resolution. If this option is not given the system
secondary DNS is used.
--domain domain
Domain name. It is used to inform the client about the domain name to
use for DNS lookups.
--ipup script
Script executed after the tun network interface has been brought up.
Executed with the following parameters: <devicename> <ip address>
<mask>
--ipdown script
Script executed after the tun network interface has been taken down.
Executed with the following parameters: <devicename> <ip address>
<mask>
--radiuslisten host
Local interface IP address to use for the radius interface. This option
also determines the value for the NAS-IP-Address radius attribute. If
--radiuslisten
is omitted then the NAS-IP-Address attribute will be set to "0.0.0.0"
and the source IP address of the radius requests will be determined by
the operating system routing tables.
--radiusserver1 host
The IP address of radius server 1 (default=rad01.hotradius.com).
--radiusserver2 host
The IP address of radius server 2 (default=rad02.hotradius.com).
--radiusauthport port
The UDP port number to use for radius authentication requests (default=1812).
--radiusacctport port
The UDP port number to use for radius accounting requests (default=1813).
--radiussecret secret
Radius shared secret for both servers (default=testing123). This
secret should be changed in order not to compromise security.
--radiusnasid id
Network access server identifier (default=nas01).
--radiuslocationid id
WISPr Location ID. Should be in the format: isocc=<ISO_Country_Code>,
cc=<E.164_Country_Code>,ac=<E.164_Area_Code>,network=<ssid/ZONE>. This
parameter is further described in the document: Wi-Fi Alliance -
Wireless ISP Roaming - Best Current Practices v1, Feb 2003.
--radiuslocationname name
WISPr Location Name. Should be in the format:
<HOTSPOT_OPERATOR_NAME>,<LOCATION>. This parameter is further
described in the document: Wi-Fi Alliance - Wireless ISP Roaming -
Best Current Practices v1, Feb 2003.
--radiusnasporttype type
Value of NAS-Port-Type attribute. Defaults to 19
(Wireless-IEEE-802.11).
--coaport port
UDP port to listen to for accepting radius disconnect requests.
--coanoipcheck
If this option is given no check is performed on the source IP address
of radius disconnect requests. Otherwise it is checked that radius
disconnect requests originate from
--radiusserver1
or
--radiusserver2.
--proxylisten host
Local interface IP address to use for accepting radius requests.
--proxyport port
UDP Port to listen to for accepting radius requests.
--proxyclient host
IP address from which radius requests are accepted. If omitted the
server will not accept radius requests.
--proxysecret secret
Radius shared secret for clients. If not specified it defaults to
--radiussecret.
--dhcpif dev
Ethernet interface to listen to for the downlink interface. This
option must be specified.
--dhcpmac address
MAC address to listen to. If not specified the MAC address of the
interface will be used. The MAC address should be chosen so that it
does not conflict with other addresses on the LAN. An address in the
range 00:00:5E:00:02:00 - 00:00:5E:FF:FF:FF falls within the IANA
range of addresses and is not allocated for other purposes.
The
--dhcpmac
option can be used in conjunction with access filters in the access
points, or with access points which supports packet forwarding to a
specific MAC address. Thus it is possible at the MAC level to separate
access point management traffic from user traffic for improved system
security.
The
--dhcpmac
option will set the interface in promisc mode.
--lease seconds
Use a DHCP lease of seconds (default = 600).
--eapolenable
If this option is given IEEE 802.1x authentication is enabled. ChilliSpot
will listen for EAP authentication requests on the interface specified by
--dhcpif.
EAP messages received on this interface are forwarded to the radius server.
--uamserver url
URL of web server to use for authenticating clients.
--uamhomepage url
URL of homepage to redirect unauthenticated users to. If not specified this defaults to
--uamserver.
--uamsecret secret
Shared secret between uamserver and chilli. This secret should be set
in order not to compromise security.
--uamlisten host
IP address to listen to for authentication of clients. If an
unauthenticated client tries to access the Internet she will be
redirected to this address.
--uamport port
TCP port to bind to for authenticating clients (default = 3990).
If an unauthenticated client tries to access the Internet she will be
redirected to this port on the
--uamlisten
IP address.
--uamallowed domain
Comma separated list of domain names, IP addresses or network segments
the client can access without first authenticating. Example:
This option is useful for access to a credit card payment gateway, for
access to community and other free information as well as for access
to a company VPN server without first having to login to the HotSpot.
ChilliSpot resolves the domain names to a set of IP addresses during
startup. Some big sites change the returned IP addresses for each
lookup. This behaviour is not compatible with this option.
It is possible to specify the
uamallowed
option several times. This is useful if many domain names has to be
specified.
--uamanydns
Allow any DNS server.
Normally unauthenticated clients are only allowed to communicate with the
DNS servers specified by the
dns1
and
dns2
options. If the
--uamanydns
option is given ChilliSpot will allow the client to use all DNS
servers. This is convenient for clients which are configured to
use a fixed set of DNS servers. For security reasons this option
should be combined with a destination NAT firewall rule which forwards
all DNS requests to a given DNS server.
--macauth
If this option is given ChilliSpot will try to authenticate all users
based on their mac address alone. The User-Name sent to the radius
server will consist of the MAC address and an optional suffix which
is specified by the
--macsuffix
option. If the
--macauth
option is specified the
--macallowed
option is ignored.
--macallowed mac
List of MAC addresses for which MAC authentication will be performed.
Example:
--macallowed 00-0A-5E-AC-BE-51,00-30-1B-3C-32-E9
The User-Name sent to the radius server will consist of the MAC address
and an optional suffix which is specified by the
--macsuffix
option. If the
--macauth
option is specified the
--macallowed
option is ignored.
It is possible to specify the
macallowed
option several times. This is useful if many mac addresses has to be
specified.
--macsuffix suffix
Suffix to add to the MAC address in order to form the User-Name, which
is sent to the radius server.
--macpasswd password
Password used when performing MAC authentication. (default = password)
FILES
/etc/chilli.conf
The configuration file for
chilli.
/var/run/chilli.pid
Process ID file.
SIGNALS
Sending HUP to chilli will cause the configuration file to be reread
and DNS lookups to be performed.
The configuration options are not affected by sending HUP:
[
--fg
] [
--conf file
] [
--pidfile file
] [
--statedir file
] [
--net net
] [
--dynip net
] [
--statip net
] [
--uamlisten host
] [
--uamport port
] [
--radiuslisten host
] [
--coaport port
] [
--coanoipcheck
] [
--proxylisten host
] [
--proxyport port
] [
--proxyclient host
] [
--proxysecret secret
] [
--dhcpif dev
] [
--dhcpmac address
] [
--lease seconds
] [
--eapolenable
]
The above configuration options can only be changed by restarting the daemon.
Please see the ChilliSpot project homepage at www.chillispot.org for
further documentation and community support.
Besides the long options documented in this man page
chilli
also accepts a number of short options with the same functionality. Use
chilli --help
for a full list of all the available options.
The TUN/TAP driver is required for proper operation of
chilli.
For linux kernels later than 2.4.7 the TUN/TAP driver is included in
the kernel, but typically needs to be loaded manually with
modprobe tun.
For automatic loading the line
alias char-major-10-200 tun
can be added to
/etc/modules.conf.
For other platforms see
http://vtun.sourceforge.net/tun/
for information on how to install and configure the tun driver.
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