Forgive my ignorance, but I have what seems to be a very simple question. I have a wireless card that I'm still attempting to setup, and while I think I have the link issues corrected, I do have some questions about the routing itself.
My configuration is as follows:
eth0 : internet/dhcp eth1 : wired local network 192.168.1.254 eth2 : wireless network (current IP 10.10.55.254 - can be configured differently)
What I want to do is to setup an open wireless gateway that will allow anyone in the area to use the wireless connection, but only after registerring. Basically I want to forward any requests to a site on my bering box that says something like, hey its free, just tell me who you are and I'll add you, after that they would be able to get through.
Has anyone configured this type of setup? Is there anything I should be paying attention to. One thing that is important is that I don't want the eth2 traffic to be able to get to my local wired LAN, on eth1.
The "old hand" Linux application for approximately this purpose is called NoCat; find it at NoCat.net . A Google search ("wifi public access linux") just now found a custom distro called PublicIP (http://www.publicip.net/) that builds on NoCat.
My hunch (based partly on some work I did about 2 years ago on a similar idea, but one involving charging usage fees) is that the required infrastructure is a bit large for LEAF, particularly the parts needed for reliable user authentication. But I haven't actually tried anything like this in quite some time, so I may be unaware of newer solutions to some of the problems.
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