Fwd: Re: Quasi-enterprise WiFi network

[Eugene Grosbein]

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?

Yes.