partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

[Erez D]

thanks,

however, that not what i ment

i was only asking how it generated a notification on my phone without
me opening a browser
i do not want to restrict access to anything

thanks,
erez.
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il> wrote:
> Hi Erez,
> For each AP you need to maintain a table of client connections that are
> "accepted", meaning that the client has presented some type of credential or
> payment or whatever.
>
> Packets from clients that are not accepted are routed to some authentication
> or payment gateway, with possible port translation.
>
> The accepted client table does not have to be on the AP itself. It is
> usually held in a RADIUS server upstream. The authentication gateway also
> does not need to be on the AP itself. It can be upstream and does not have
> to be the same as the RADIUS server. You can also have more than one payment
> gateway but use the same RADIUS server.
>
> That, in a nutshell is how it is done. There's a lot of netfilter/iptables
> smoke an mirrors going on on the AP.
>
>
>  - yba
>
>
> On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote:
>
>> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:26:52 +0300
>> From: Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>
>> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
>> Cc: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
>> Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi
>>
>>
>> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham <yba at tkos.co.il>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hi Erez,
>>> No. The ability to configure a payment/authentication gateway is a router
>>> feature. I worked on this feature for Alvarion's WBSn. Every router
>>> designer
>>> develops their own feature.
>>
>>
>> can you elaborate ?
>>>
>>>
>>>  - yba
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote:
>>>
>>>> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:11:54 +0300
>>>> From: Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>
>>>> To: linux-il <linux-il at cs.huji.ac.il>
>>>> Subject: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> this is partially off topic
>>>>
>>>> some times when i connect to open wifi on aitports, my phone (android)
>>>> gives me a notification of a site i need to go to, and if i click on
>>>> it, it opens a browser with a predefined URL
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> i was wandering - is that part of an RFC or standard ?
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> 10x
>>>> erez.
>>>>
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