On Fri, Apr 20, 2001 at 05:48:29AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've been asked to develop something like they have in Hotels, where,
> when you plug into the building Network, and fire up Nutscrape, the
> only thing you can get to is a page asking you register your machine
> before you can get out on the Net.
here's how i'd probably attempt to do it if i ever needed to:
i'd use DHCP to assign RFC1918 private network addresses to the client
machines. i'd also use squid with a flexible redirector program like
squidguard. transparent proxying would also be useful to force all web
traffic to go through squid.
a script could monitor the DHCP leases file, and when an IP was assigned
to a new MAC address, insert a squid redirection rule for that client
IP to send it to your registration CGI. it would also insert a packet
filter rule (ipchains or whatever) preventing that IP from getting
anywhere except the proxy server.
the registration CGI takes the user's details, verifies them in whatever
way, and removes the squid redirection rule and the firewall block.
the client machine would have to be set up as a dhcp client, and they
wouldn't be able to do anything until they'd fired up a web browser and
registered.
craig
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