FreeBSD and Hotspots

[Bruce A. Mah]

On Wed, 2004-07-14 at 20:54, Dinesh Nair wrote:
> On Wed, 14 Jul 2004, Bruce A. Mah wrote:
> 
> > If memory serves me right, staticblackz wrote:
> >
> > > I am trying to build a hotspot for freebsd I was wondering how
> > > something like this would be made, is there already one out there I
> > > can use. I would need it to redirect users to some web page ran off
> > > apache that can send their logon info to the radius server also
> > > making it so they can't browse the net until they were authenticated
> > > with the radius server.
> >
> > Recent beta versions of m0n0wall (a FreeBSD-based firewall) have
> > captive portal support.  I haven't tried this feature personally, but
> > I'm pretty sure there's RADIUS support.
> 
> there is RADIUS authentication support in m0n0wall's captive portal.
> RADIUS accounting will soon be added in, when i've completed testing of
> that module. m0n0wall's captive portal also handles pass-through MAC
> addresses and IP address, i.e. clients which can pass through the captive
> portal without authenticating.

Thanks, Dinesh.  That sounds very nice...I'll have to check out one of
the betas.  Hmmm...looks like it's time to go buy another Soekris
box...  :-)

Bruce.

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