Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-27 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
If you want a captive portal then as suggested above chillispot or coovachilli seem to be your answer (though both projects seem to be fairly dead). The wikipedia article on captive portals lists a few distros that may be useful to you. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal 2014-05-27 8:46

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
Do you know what linux software can be used to proxy dns for some clients, resolve everything to a predetermained IP to other clients ? can dnsmasq do that ? other open software ? On Tue, May 27, 2014 at 5:56 AM, Guy Gold wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Amos Shapira > wrote: >> >> Yes

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Guy Gold
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 7:25 PM, Amos Shapira wrote: > Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP admin > do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client. > At least, on my part, configuring our WiFi AP concentrator, I did nothing in order to make t

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2014-05-27 2:25 GMT+03:00 Amos Shapira : > Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP admin > do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client. > Make sure you aren't whitelisting the pages/domains used to verify the connectivity level... > On 27 Ma

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Amos Shapira
Yes I think we got this. I'm not the OP bit I wonder what can an AP admin do to configure it in a way which triggers this OS smarts on the client. On 27 May 2014 07:16, "Guy Gold" wrote: > On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Erez D wrote: > >> however, that not what i ment >> i was only asking how

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Guy Gold
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 4:51 AM, Erez D wrote: > however, that not what i ment > i was only asking how it generated a notification on my phone without > me opening a browser > > Hi Erez, At the risk of needlessly reiterating some detail: In cases I've encountered, the alerts seemed to be OS gen

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
Avraham Cc: linux-il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi Jonathan, if we are talking about walled garden/captive portal implementation under linux, i'll take the opportunity to ask something related. how does the AP redirect every web access to the login

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
oing on on the AP. > > > > > > - yba > > > > > > On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote: > > > >> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:26:52 +0300 > >> From: Erez D > >> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham > >> Cc: linux-il > >>

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
on the AP. > > > - yba > > > On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:26:52 +0300 >> From: Erez D >> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham >> Cc: linux-il >> Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
ay but use the same RADIUS server. >> > >> > That, in a nutshell is how it is done. There's a lot of >> > netfilter/iptables >> > smoke an mirrors going on on the AP. >> > >> > >> > - yba >> > >> > >>

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
t; > > > - yba > > > > > > On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote: > > > >> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:26:52 +0300 > >> From: Erez D > >> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham > >> Cc: linux-il > >> Subject: Re: partly OT: notification o

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
Mon, 26 May 2014 10:26:52 +0300 >> From: Erez D >> To: Jonathan Ben Avraham >> Cc: linux-il >> Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi >> >> >> On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham >> wrote

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
han Ben Avraham Cc: linux-il Subject: Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:23 AM, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote: Hi Erez, No. The ability to configure a payment/authentication gateway is a router feature. I worked on this feature for Alvario

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
rate ? > > - yba > > > On Mon, 26 May 2014, Erez D wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 26 May 2014 10:11:54 +0300 >> From: Erez D >> To: linux-il >> Subject: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi >> >> >> this is partially off topi

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:18 AM, Rabin Yasharzadehe wrote: > I think it's the same/some implementation of Google chrome to check if you > are behind a proxy and have access to the internet. > > https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup Thanks, i'll look into

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Jonathan Ben Avraham
D To: linux-il Subject: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi this is partially off topic some times when i connect to open wifi on aitports, my phone (android) gives me a notification of a site i need to go to, and if i click on it, it opens a browser with a predefined URL

Re: partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Rabin Yasharzadehe
I think it's the same/some implementation of Google chrome to check if you are behind a proxy and have access to the internet. https://mikewest.org/2012/02/chrome-connects-to-three-random-domains-at-startup *--Rabin* On Mon, May 26, 2014 at 10:11 AM, Erez D wrote: > this is partially off top

partly OT: notification of url when connecting to open wifi

2014-05-26 Thread Erez D
this is partially off topic some times when i connect to open wifi on aitports, my phone (android) gives me a notification of a site i need to go to, and if i click on it, it opens a browser with a predefined URL i was wandering - is that part of an RFC or standard ? 10x erez. ___