Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot -- pam_iptables

2003-08-16 Thread Jesse Molina
Hi! I just happened to be doing some work with PAM today and then glanced over here at the Debian ISP mailing list. There is actually a pam_iptables module. Maybe it will be useful for this subject. Check it out; http://www.itlab.musc.edu/~nathan/authentication_gateway/ http://www.itlab.mus

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-16 Thread Leonardo Boselli
I have a similar problem: ethernet socket in a public acxcessible area. This means that anyone can just plug his PC and get an address. We want to limit the possibility to exit from the network only to authorized people. The way we did was by assigning private address and then asking the user to

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Fraser Campbell
On August 15, 2003 03:46 pm, Kay-Michael Voit wrote: > Yes, I know, I'm just too stupid, reading my message again you will > notice, that I wanted to write MAC adress. > IP is |$_SERVER[REMOTE_ADDR] but I don't think this is usefull here. > Any solution how to determine the MAC automatically?| If

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kay-Michael Voit schrieb: | | |>> If we work with iptables, we have to authenticate the client in some |>> way. Though I think it is possible to extend iptables, this would |>> exceed my abilitys a lot. |>> |> |> |> But maybe would be the cleanest / bes

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Alex Borges
yes, the solution is plausible this way, but i do think the nocatauth ppl have some road ahead for this problem (perl based wifi authentication gateway). I mean, there are som many ways to do this. For example, the way they are doing it at airports. You go and buy a little card, fire up the wifi c

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Uwe A. P. Wuerdinger
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kay-Michael Voit schrieb: | Well, I'll consider Kourosh's suggestions at first. | But, actually, I've some ideas how I could solve the problem for me and | probably for some other, too. | | Mainly, my idea is limited through my programming skill, but i

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Cato Aune
fredag 15. august 2003, 21:46, skrev Kay-Michael Voit: > >>If we work with iptables, we have to authenticate the client in > >> some way. Though I think it is possible to extend iptables, this > >> would exceed my abilitys a lot. > > > >But maybe would be the cleanest / best solution :-) Okay then

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Kay-Michael Voit
If we work with iptables, we have to authenticate the client in some way. Though I think it is possible to extend iptables, this would exceed my abilitys a lot. But maybe would be the cleanest / best solution :-) Okay then ... I fully agree, but as I said, it exeeds my skill, I think

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Kay-Michael Voit
Well, I'll consider Kourosh's suggestions at first. But, actually, I've some ideas how I could solve the problem for me and probably for some other, too. Mainly, my idea is limited through my programming skill, but it should work though... Just tell me how you think about my considerations...

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Kourosh Ghassemieh
On Fri, 2003-08-15 at 08:35, Kay-Michael Voit wrote: > Hi, > I'm considering to build up a public wlan hotspot. I need time-limited > authentification, mainly for identity logging purposes, not for billing. > I thougt about buying tickets (perhaps around 1 EUR/h) with time-limited > username and

Re: Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Alex Borges
The new buzzword for solutions to the wifi solution provider is VBN or visitor based networking. Dumb boxes that force each user to authenticate, then take appropriate steps in the firewall/proxy...etc. There was a thread about that a couple of months before. Please dont go and buy a cisco box.

Software for WLAN Hotspot

2003-08-15 Thread Kay-Michael Voit
Hi, I'm considering to build up a public wlan hotspot. I need time-limited authentification, mainly for identity logging purposes, not for billing. I thougt about buying tickets (perhaps around 1 EUR/h) with time-limited username and password on it. Where should I put in the authentification? At