G'Day All...
I have just got some 802.11 gear for home, and am somewhat disatisfied with the availability tools for wireless [No reflection on the Astaro people though - I am talking generally here].
The wireless I am working with are wireless access points with an Ethernet Interface. This makes locating them in the best spot for wireless easier.
At nocat.net there is a project that is working on MAC based access controls with username/password for all traffic. The idea is that you connect to any WWW site, and it redirects you to a LOGIN screen on the WWW browser. You authenticate yourself, which creates a new firewall rule opening up your access.
When you are authenticated a little WWW page is opened up which refreshes every few minutes. This is what keeps the connection open. As soon as the WWW pages does not keep the connection open, the firewall closes the ports.
This would work well with a DHCP server. Note that this not only works for wireless, but anywhere where you want to ensure that people are who they say they are before using any services.
This is also more flexable than just using proxy servers...
What I am looking at doing is working out how to get NoCatAuth software into ASL. Anyone else interested in this?
Darryl
Darryl@radio-active.net.au
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