[2005-05-04 09:40] Steve Hoffman said: | Right now, my company has two wireless access points (a WAP11 and a | WRT54G), one at each end of the buildling. We're currently doing MAC | filtering only, since the only ones who use the wireless are company | guests. Every time one shows up they have to come to me to give me | their MAC so I can punch it in to both AP's and if I'm not here then | they have to plug into the wall (gasp). So I was recently on a trip | and the hotel I stayed at had free wireless. In order to use it, I | connected to the AP, surfed to ANY webpage and was taken to their | "login" page that asked for my room number and the code printed on my | key. As soon as I did that I was able to surf the internet with no | problems for the duration of my stay. | | I'd like to set something similar up, perhaps only slightly less | sophisticated, but when someone comes here they can only get to the | login webpage until they provide valid credentials and then are able | to surf the net freely. My problem is I don't know where to start | looking. The network is about 75% linux so I'd prefer a linux based | solution, but if there's a better way to do it on <the OS that shall | remain nameless> then please pass it along also.
The EWRT firmware (http://www.portless.net/menu/ewrt/) contains NoCatAuth/Splash (http://nocat.net/) and does a fair job of this. cheers. Brent -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ TriLUG PGP Keyring : http://trilug.org/~chrish/trilug.asc
