On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 10:41 PM, Jonathan Bartels <[email protected]> wrote: > Stupid questions from a non-networking guy: > Could you set up the WiFi router to go through the proxy instead of > each device?
That's an interesting question, I don't know. At the moment, we've got a chaotic hodge-podge of WRT54GLs serving as our wireless access cloud, and they don't function as routers (the WAN interface is left unplugged on all of them). But I *am* looking at replacing that this summer... > Is it a rule that "all wireless users go through the > proxy" or that "users must log in to the proxy individually"? Neither. No one on the network (including our own wired-in machines) can get out to the Internet except through the proxy, but there is no authentication to it. The proxy is there for content caching, and filtering. The wireless users are simply being switched onto the main subnet with everything else, here, through the access points. So they just need the same settings I have to set up for everything to be able to get out. Unfortunately, even though I can set up this information for Windows, Mac, and Linux boxes, as well as most devices that have been brought to me, I haven't found a way to get it into Android. > Is there > a way to set up a 'hotel" access system so you can always connect but > are sandboxed until you authenticate on a webpage? As I'm looking to replace our wireless access point infrastructure this summer, there's been *some* talk about these sorts of options. At the moment, no. > Ultimately, changing your network configuration and user rules is > probably excessive just to get Android users online. Indeed! This is just such a standard option on everything else, that I was hoping someone else would have met with this problem and found a solution already. _______________________________________________ Fwlug mailing list [email protected] http://fortwaynelug.org/mailman/listinfo/fwlug_fortwaynelug.org This is a public list and all posts are archived publicly. Please keep this in mind before posting.
