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Of primary interest to me and much of the NYCwireless community would be (1) and to a lesser extent (3). (2) would be useful in the medium/long term, but there needs to be a standard network interface for these things, and I don't know if the NoCatAuth provides one... Dana Spiegel sociableDESIGN :: www.sociableDESIGN.com 123 Bank Street, Suite 510, New York, NY 10014 m +1 917 402 0422 :: f +1 760 454 3690 :: e dana at sociableDESIGN dot com On Jan 14, 2004, at 5:46 PM, Honson, Steven N wrote: > What type of captive portal would everyone be keen to get going? > > 1) A simple one that just has an AUP that you have to agree on before > being given net access. > > 2) Or something like a NoCatAuth Gateway that can talk to a remote > NoCatAuth Server and do accounting and auth and whatnot. > > 3) A completely m0n0wall based portal that does auth and accounting > using a local user database and logs the accounting to a remote syslog > server? > > 4) None of the above. > > Cheers, > Steven > > -----Original Message----- > From: joshmccormack at travelersdiary dot com > [mailto:joshmccormack at travelersdiary dot com] > Sent: Thursday, 15 January 2004 1:05 AM > To: Dana Spiegel > Cc: dick at dickmorrell dot com; m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch; Manuel Dominguez > Subject: Re: [m0n0wall] m0n0wall survey > > On Wed, 14 Jan 2004, Dana Spiegel wrote: > >> If this is something that people are really interested in (I am >> interested in this as well), then: >> >> 1) I can help figure out the best way to do this, in terms of design >> of >> the system. We do have best practices for this sort of thing >> 2) I can give a presentation to the rest of NYCwireless (being an >> active member and on the board of advisors), which will cause more >> people to adopt m0n0wall. >> >> Dana Spiegel >> Director, NYCwireless >> dana at nycwireless dot net >> www.nycwireless.net >> > > Very exciting that a captive portal could be part of this system. > Since NoCatAuth is done in Perl, and PHP runs on m0n0wall and I know > both, if I could help out with that I'd be willing. That's assuming it > would be done in PHP and not C (which I'd be no help in). > > Any chance of an SSL based VPN (I know OpenVPN integration has been > mentioned) being added? > > If a captive portal system is done, would it just be a splash page (in > which case there is a C version done by the authors of NoCatAuth you > might be able to use) or would it handle different levels of > authorization? This leads to the next natural question, where would > the list of authorized users be stored? OpenRadius? Text files, etc? > > Josh > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: m0n0wall dash unsubscribe at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > For additional commands, e-mail: m0n0wall dash help at lists dot m0n0 dot ch > |