On 02/07/2010 10:27, Merciadri Luca wrote:
No. That's not at all a proxy. Once you power on the computer, and that
you want to use Internet, say by Firefox, you are directly redirected to
a webpage which asks you your university login& your university
password. Once you have entered this stuff, you are logged on the
network, and everything is okay. That's a little bit like ADSL where you
need to type credentials before using the Internet (at the opposite of
the cable).
:-(
Thanks.
...so you can only use a browser then? You can't use other applications?
This sounds like the sort of system they have a hotels and such
like...but there are ways to get around these...one way was even put in
a Linux magazine a few weeks ago. Have a search around
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