This document is both a User Manual and a Guide to the configuration of the various part of the Endian Hotspot Appliance web interface and its functionalities.
The latest updates and corrections to this manual, referred to the latest release of the Endian Hotspot Appliance, will be available online at http://docs.endian.com/3.2/hotspot/.
This reference manual is Copyright (c) 2011-2016 Endian S.r.l., Italy and corresponds to revision 3.2 of the online version.
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This document has been edited and written by Stefano David with the help of the other Endian Team members, building on the previous 2.4 version written by (in alphabetical order) Andreas Ender, Diego Gagliardo, Luca Giovenzana, Christian Graffer, Raphael Lechner, Chris Mair, Raphael Vallazza, and Peter Warasin. Some parts of the 2.4 documentation were based on the IPCop Administrative Guide by Chris Clancey, Harry Goldschmitt, John Kastner, Eric Oberlander, Peter Walker and on the IPCop Advanced Proxy Administrative Guide by Marco Sondermann.
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