Date: Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:24:11 +0700 From: Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su> To: Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net> Cc: Marek Zarychta <zarychtam@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Quasi-enterprise WiFi network Message-ID: <20180114072411.GA29210@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> In-Reply-To: <5A5AFAEA.2010506@grosbein.net> References: <52165.108.68.171.12.1515350430.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <CAOjFWZ5j%2BixKVc0cy6ik=BuU0nmpdUgFyePAVDouKmS=MM9vOg@mail.gmail.com> <20180108072035.GB52442@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <CAOjFWZ6XY2pHaVUqwSxL=hK9VdKh0ZdFMeHMdbhsDC=z8zngYw@mail.gmail.com> <20180113095553.GA19901@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <CAF6rxgkDugr=dcYptufVR71Fn9pdAtmxZfKe8QwQpChUN0ckTQ@mail.gmail.com> <20180113110739.GA20415@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <20180113144157.GA33988@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl> <20180114063140.GA28750@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru> <5A5AFAEA.2010506@grosbein.net>
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Eugene Grosbein wrote: > 14.01.2018 13:31, Victor Sudakov wrote: > > > Do you know how commercial captive portals handle this problem? Do they > > install their own box near every customer's AP? > > No. For example, UniFi (which is Linux-based AP with iptables/ebtables) > keeps table of MAC addresses of customers passed authorization and redirects > HTTP requests of others to single portal using some kind of socket forwarding or NAT. > And portal informs AP of authorization success for a client to add its MAC to that table. So, they (commercial captive portal services) install their own AP then? In hardware? -- Victor Sudakov, VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN AS43859
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