Wookiee

Dang I got ripped off, mine cost me $5, but yeah they work perfectly in a snap no real reason not to have one in the old bag'O'tricks now. Additional note: Raspberry pi has a serial port as well and would be great for all those applications. (http://lavalink.com/...al-interfacing/) so that should work in a snap as well. Edit: added weasel words in case I am wrong.

Ok sorry for the crapy diagram here but let me see if I get this straight: You have a network that looks like this: Pineapple---[eth]---Laptop---[wifi]---HomeRouter---[adsl/other]---internet And you want to limit the connectivity from your main "HomeRouter" this will in turn limit the connectivity to your laptop (as I am guessing you use a connection sharing setup at the laptop right?) and thus in turn this then filters down to limit the pineapple, this seems like overkill to stop leachers you could set up wshaper on the pineapple and shape ppl's connections. Bert Huberts website (http://lartc.org/wondershaper/) talks about what it sounds like you want to do with the pineapple but if you want to do it to your whole network then yeah probably QoS rules. Acording to this (http://tomatousb.org...to-s-qos-system) the main gist of QoS is more application based mannagement not individual client based mannagement. This does not sound like what you are after (read below) If however you wanted to limit the total amount downloadable (say so as to not rack up a massive bill on your 3/4g carier) you may try this page (http://wiki.openwrt....acket.scheduler) and do it on the pineapple itself, your main concern seems to be that a client will suck all your data, you may wish to read more from our freind Bert Hubert, (http://lartc.org/how...artc.qdisc.html) Lots of theory on shaping there but I still think this would be best performed on the pineapple itself. But then I have 0 experience here I just googled it. Other than that see if you can monitor some one and just blacklist em after a limit is hit, if they change their mac addr to get back on then you probably have a bigger fish on the line than you want and you may wish to revisit wshaper. There could also be software options for the laptop itself to limit the amount of bandwidth the pineapple, if windows there is a bunch of realy dodgy lookin free programs... as of 6 years ago there seems to be no way to limit bandwith in windows nativly (ref: http://www.techsupportforum.com/forums/f31/limiting-internet-bandwidth-over-lan-119444.html#post655275) and if windows is anything to go by I have no reason to believe they have fixed this yet. Good luck.

Just a shot in the dark here as I am at uni I cant test this on mine, try this http://wiki.openwrt.org/doc/recipes/guest-wlan#step.5limit.bandwidth.of.the.connection

I did it this way: [install iptables] echo 1 > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_forward iptables -t nat -A POSTROUTING -o eth1 -j MASQUERADE [edit: woops did not understand what you were asking... the above should still work but if you want to use the moduals then I got no clue, havent installed any yet... incidently if you are using the wlan0 on your pineapple how are you using both eth0 and eth1? I was under the impression that engaging the wlan0 took the rescorces that eth0 needed... or something,and forwarding between eth1 and wlan0 should be engaged by default.]

Here is what it looks like all up and running (arch on the Pi) automaticly sets its ip to 42.42 on start up and the wireless is currently configured to my home network and then it forwards that on to the pineapple. ssh works pinapple side aircrack works metasploit works (although its a bit of a hog for the wee thing) no gui on it but then you wouldent need one, thinking about putting nesus on there as well. nmap etc hell I got 8 gig to play with I can remotely put on what I need. Future mods to the thing, fan in the back (as you can see tons of room) ubertooth one... because I can. Power light so I can tell at a glance.and maybe extend the hornets 2 buttons to the project box. Then to paint it up put pvc over the antena put a sign on the front, (something to the ilk of "Monetering/Relay/Audit station warning low voltage." in one of those white signs with red writing) find a wall with a cealing to mount it to with a power point near by. Kind of like a junction box or something. As it is the thing works perfectly well stand alone and once installed I am sure some one would let me use their wifi to access the internet to keep metasploit up to date and give all the "players" free internets If I made another one I would probably take the jacks off the pcbs (usb, ethernet, power, etc) get em thin then sandwitch them together with minimum gap and just connect them directly. Could probably fit all of them into a standard pineapple case let alone the pelican hardcase. As it is all limitations were overcome with creative wireing no changes to the existing hardware. If I wanted to make this perminent I think I would try and go as small as a smartphone.

If you are going to have the thing naked in front of you any way may as well try and short the reset button with a screwdriver/aligatorclips/paperclip... see if it is broke, not much good if you flash it and the reset button is still broke, may just hit the same problem again.

Been working on something like this as well. So far I got: (all split from a single jack powered by a 5vdc regulated wall wart) [horent-ub] <------(rj45)-------> [Raspberry Pi] <-------(usb cable spliced into the 5vdc power suply)-----> [AWUS036NHA] Would love to put an ubertoothone in there[the rather small project box] as well (just the naked chips atm so dont take up much room at all) but the practicality[for this build] vs the price of it at this point is kinda meh. Basic idea, pineapple gets the "players" and if they open any webpage they find themselves presented with a "You are currently in a war game... would you like to opt out?" If they select yes, black list em, if no give them the details to ssh into the raspberry pi, there give them a bunch of fun tools like metasploit running etc. Fun thing about this you can ssh into it with your smart phone if you liked, check out all the other "players" and attempt to compromise one another. The alfa card is there for any number of reasons, it will undoubtedly come in handy. The pineapple also gives the ability to redirect and host the payload sites you may need... although anyone "playing" should be too silly to fall for that. So yeah war game in a project box... put it somewhere public and people can "play" till their hearts content. could build one of these without the alfa for about $100 so this is a fairly cheep price for fun. Multiplayer yay! (Anyone else doing this I recommend getting a rev 2 pi as the usb 2 is actually to spec on the new ones and you don't need to splice cables and/or short the polyfuses. Also the mounting holes make life much easier. If you are really keen you could set it up connected to the hornet to flash it again from the raspi but you would naturally have to connect via the alfa... remote unbricking ftw!)