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Date:      Sun, 14 Jan 2018 14:24:11 +0700
From:      Victor Sudakov <vas@mpeks.tomsk.su>
To:        Eugene Grosbein <eugen@grosbein.net>
Cc:        Marek Zarychta <zarychtam@plan-b.pwste.edu.pl>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Fwd: Re: Quasi-enterprise WiFi network
Message-ID:  <20180114072411.GA29210@admin.sibptus.transneft.ru>
In-Reply-To: <5A5AFAEA.2010506@grosbein.net>
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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?

-- 
Victor Sudakov,  VAS4-RIPE, VAS47-RIPN
AS43859



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