[TriLUG] Hotel style wireless

Brent Verner brent at rcfile.org
Wed May 4 10:04:28 EDT 2005


[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




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