Fwd: Re: Quasi-enterprise WiFi network

[Victor Sudakov]

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?

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Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
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