14.01.2018 14:24, 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?
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