Hi Antonio,
I never had to look for such a solution, so I won't be able to give you an exact model to work with. But I used dd-wrt for many years before I could afford to buy some Cisco routers and Aps ;) I was using the Asus RT-N16 which comes with 32Mb of flash, and totally supports USB drive. I was using JFFS and it worked great. I think the 3G connections were supported with dd-wrt on this router. You can also look at alternative releases like Tomato mods or openwrt. You can find lots of modules to install with openwrt but you will certainly have to dig into the Linux CLI. You need to already be comfortable with this, as the ...wrt features can require advanced configuration. Years ago I also worked with a Cisco router to add a 3G connection. It automatically connected to the VPN connection of my company over the 3G to give access to internal resources as a backup to the usual xDSL link. But I don't think the captive portal was supported, unless using an external solution. Keep us informed of the solution you will find, I'm interested ;) — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone On Sun, Feb 9, 2014 at 12:25 AM, Antonio Soares <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello group, > > This is OT but since there are many Wireless experts here, maybe someone can > help me. > > Im looking for a WiFi and 3G router with Walled Garden/Captive > Portal/Welcome URL feature. > > The idea is very simple, the clients connect to the WiFi Router and when > they open the browser, they are re-directed to a Welcome page, a pre-defined > page on the Internet. I dont need the advanced features like > authentication, accepting Terms and Services and things like that. > > It seems very simple but I cant find any router to do this. The best I was > able to find was the dd-wrt software that has a feature called nocatsplash. > The problem here is that the 3G/WiFi routers supported are essentially a few > TP-Link models but all only have 4 Mb of flash. Then the nocatsplash > requires the configuration of a Landing Page. This Landing Page can be > hosted on the router itself using the local file system (JFFS) but this is > only possible if the router has more than 4 Mb of flash or if it supports an > external storage device. > > If someone knows a router to do this of some firmware other that dd-wrt that > could be run on the TP-Link TL-MR3xxx routers, please let me know ! > > > Thanks. > > Regards, > > Antonio Soares, CCIE #18473 (RS/SP) > [email protected] > http://www.ccie18473.net <http://www.ccie18473.net/> > >
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