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 _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list https://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-net-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"