I still don't understand the desire for HotSpot as you seem to be trying to force it to do something beyond its design. However, if I read your post correctly, I think you might be able to do what you want, though it would be easier to unplug the cable of of the router.

If you disable cookies, logging out of the hotspot requires logging back in to get beyond the walled-garden. However, it only works for the individual computer, so they would have to log out of each computer.

J. Vogel wrote:
I do appreciate that Dennis and Chuck have both taken the time and effort
to respond, but unfortunately - I still don't have an answer to the original
question. Is there a way to set the MT HotSpot feature to handle logons
for a customer who desires to be able to disable internet access from their
location when that customer's router already has a static public IP address.

For a variety of reasons, I would like to be able to accomplish this rather
than tell the customer such a thing is not possible, or that they need
to buy
new computers, or that they should not let their kids use the computers to
play games on because they cannot guarantee that the kids will not access
the internet when they were not supposed to, or.....

Refer to my original post for more information, or contact me directly
if you
think such a thing can be done or even if you think it cannot be done.

Thanks!

John Vogel

Dennis Burgess - 2K Wireless wrote:
Lol ;) bingo!

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of CHUCK PROFITO
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 10:53 PM
To: 'WISPA General List'
Subject: RE: [WISPA] Hotspot setup

I don't know. But since 98 is no longer supported sell them an xp pro
upgrade. Then it will work. And you'll make some money.
Chuck Profito
209-988-7388
CV-ACCESS, INC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing High Speed Broadband to Rural Central California


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of J. Vogel
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 8:24 PM
To: WISPA General List
Subject: Re: [WISPA] Hotspot setup


Does that work on Win98?

John Vogel


CHUCK PROFITO wrote:
Why knock your self out, use the two finger lock, "windows key and L"

Chuck Profito
209-988-7388
CV-ACCESS, INC
[EMAIL PROTECTED] Providing High Speed Broadband to Rural Central California


-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of J. Vogel
Sent: Monday, May 07, 2007 1:41 PM
To: wireless@wispa.org
Subject: [WISPA] Hotspot setup


Is it possible to use MT Hotspot feature with clients that already have
a public static IP address? I have a client that wants to be able to turn
off their Internet Access when not being used.. they have a couple of
computers in their office that unauthorized people may have access to
when they step out of the office for a minute or two, and want to prevent
those unauthorized people from using the computer(s) to access the
internet.
The set up is like this...

client computers connected to a D-Link router, NAT/DHCP addressing.
The D-Link has a static public IP on the WAN side.
The D-Link accesses the Internet through a Tranzeo CPE configured in
bridge mode, which is associated to the MT Access point.
It is at this point that I would like to configure the hotspot, but only
for
this one client.

Further info...
The MT AP is also acting as a transparent bridge, receiving traffic on
the AP side, and sending it to the network Gateway out ether1 (which
goes through two more transparent bridges before it gets to the GW).
The MT that is acting as AP for this client is on OS 2.9.35

The MT AP currently has a private IP address. I could put a public IP
on it and switch it to a routed segment at some point, but would rather
not have to do that before setting this hotspot up for this client if
that is
at all possible.

My thoughts are that it would be great to intercept traffic coming from
the
customer's public IP and direct it to the hotspot's walled garden until
they
provide a username and password, the enable access until they either log
out or are inactive for a given number of minutes, or possible after a
maximum length of time. I know that I can use the MT to direct traffic
to a walled garden manually (I have used it like that to manually disable
a
customer's access) but would like to use it with the client login/logout
feature.

If someone has some pointers, or is willing to help me set this up, I
would
greatly appreciate any help.

John Vogel


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