partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

[E.S. Rosenberg]

If you want a captive portal then as suggested above chillispot or
coovachilli seem to be your answer (though both projects seem to be fairly
dead).

The wikipedia article on captive portals lists a few distros that may be
useful to you.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal


2014-05-27 8:46 GMT+03:00 Erez D <erez0001 at gmail.com>:

> Do you know what linux software can be used to proxy dns for some
> clients, resolve everything to a predetermained IP to other clients ?
>
> can dnsmasq do that ? other open software ?
>
> On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Guy Gold <guy1gold at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Amos Shapira <amos.shapira at gmail.com>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP
> admin
> >> do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client.
> >
> > At least, on my part, configuring our WiFi AP concentrator, I did
> nothing in
> > order to make that happen, I configured the captive portal web page, but
> not
> > more than that, which leads my believe it's an OS feature, rather then AP
> > feature. (just my opinion though, no proof).
> > The unit in production is an Enterasys C-25.
> >
> > As for how the Captive works, in our case,  it allows any client :53
> > traffic, and blocks any other traffic,  also, it  resolves  any DNS
> query to
> > to its own captive portal address, once a client (identified by MAC)
> > authenticates, it then  stops the forced resolution to its own address,
>  and
> > lets :53 and all  traffic through, to "real" Name Servers and the www.
> >
> >
> >
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