question about captive wifi portal...

[Niki Denev]

On Jan 14, 2008 8:35 AM, Lyle Scott III <portcitycs at gmail.com> wrote:
> I am experimenting more to make a small captive (wifi) portal system.
>
> I would like to use pf.  I have been looking into authpf and it is a pretty
> good fit for what i need... but the users won't be SSHing to get allowed.
>
> Is there another way around this?  Does anyone else have and suggestions or
> links that could be helpful?
>
> I also thought i could just use packet marks, but I am just unaware of
> anything else to make the pf packets more dynamic... i guess that would be
> the goal of this post
>
> --
> Lyle Scott, III
> http://www.lylescott.ws


Hi,

pfSense[1], a FreeBSD based router/firewall distribution has integrated
captive portal using pf. Maybe you'll want to check how they are doing this.

[1] http://pfsense.com

HTH,
Niki