Re: [m0n0wall] Another use for Captive Portal?

From:	Chris Buechler <cbuechler at gmail dot com>
To:	Jari Puhakka <jari dot puh at nbl dot fi>
Cc:	m0n0wall at lists dot m0n0 dot ch
Subject:	Re: [m0n0wall] Another use for Captive Portal?
Date:	Wed, 6 Oct 2004 02:11:18 -0400

On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:07:42 +0300, Jari Puhakka <jari dot puh at nbl dot fi> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I got an idea to use captive portal as a notice page. If the WAN is down and
> operator is trying to fix it (hopefully) I could turn on the captive portal
> to announce that the problem is at operators end not in users computer or
> our lan. So there would not be 20 people calling me and asking whats wrong.
> 

You can put in a custom HTML file in for the portal page, and turn on
captive portal on the LAN as needed.

-Chris