On Mon, Sep 19, 2016 at 8:54 PM, Anish Mangal <anis...@umich.edu> wrote:
> Hi, > > So I was able to setup freeradius and coovachilli on a centos x86 machine > to setup a captive portal using the method below: > https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-a- > wireless-hotspot-with-captive-page-in-linux-using-coovachilli/ > > Now, this is progress since the user experience is exactly how you would > see in a coffee shop. Upon connecting, you will see a notification in your > phone, and be prompted by a login prompt (where we can redirect the user to > school.lan) or whatever afterwards. > > However, there are some notes: > 1. Coovachili does its own dhcp, so probably we might have to use that, if > the captive portal is being enabled. > 2. By default it does dhcp on a different subnet. and _maybe_ because of > that, a bunch of iptables rules dont work. name resolution doesnt work. > Will change the default subnet to what we currently use and disable dhcpd > and see what happens > > To setup coova and freeradius, they have to be compiled from source. The > compiling was pretty straightforward on centos, so either the same can be > done for ARM, but long term i think packages would be wonderful :-) > > All in all, this definitely looks like an approach worth pursuing :) > > Cheers, > Anish > > -- Anish
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