Agreed. That kind of thing was really driving the decision to put any auth near the gateway. If this thingie works well, it'd be a lot easier to push auth out to the AP. I'm still not sure that's a good idea, but at least it'd be more feasible technically :)
On 4/3/06, bandwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've read some horror stories about bad NoCatAuth/Splash installs trapping a > user at every network hop. > > Using a multi-tier approach with location specific SSIDs and using a mesh'd > backhaul network looks like the way to go. > > > On 4/3/06, Eater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Yeah, I'm sure they would. Heh :) > > > > Anyway, this actually sounds pretty perfectly suited to CFn. Much > > more so than nocat was. > > > > On 4/3/06, bandwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > > The layout that it desribes is having a central authentication server. > It > > > might be something to load up onto Gibson.cfn and try it out. > > > > > > If you're volunteering to add more DB compatibility to the wifidog > project, > > > I'm sure they'd love you. > > > > > > > > > On 4/3/06, Eater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Interesting. Looks much easier to implement than nocat, honestly. I > > > think it's a little cumbersome to insist on authenticating against > > > postgres, however. I like postgres, but it'd be nice to have the > > > option to use a simple bdb or something for small deployments. > > > > > > On 4/3/06, bandwith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > http://dev.wifidog.org > > > > > > > > The feature set looks promising. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CHAOS706.ORG" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chaos706 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
