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Cc: net@FreeBSD.org, Stefan Lambrev <stefan.lambrev@moneybookers.com>
Subject: Re: MAC locking and filtering in FreeBSD
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At 03:38 PM 5/13/2009, Christian Brueffer wrote:

>Sounds like wlan_acl(4) may be of interest to you.

Unfortunately, wlan_acl(4) is only useful if one wants to ban users 
from the network, which these venues will rarely want to do except 
to block an abuser.

Rather, they'll want the equipment to recognize MAC addresses and 
grant different degrees of access to them. For example, a user 
might be trapped in a "walled garden" until agreeing to an 
acceptable use policy, and then redirected -- but only once -- to a 
specific Web page, such as the hotel chain's reservation page.

--Brett Glass