[Server-devel] Filtering and authentication

[Reuben K. Caron]

All of the documentation is contained within their download. It appears
like a nice lightweight solution. It is basically a captive portal that
requires authentication before allowing access to the internet. It takes
a different approach then netreg using dynamically created iptables
generated after a user logs in. Whereas netreg uses dhcp to assign one
set of ip addresses to an authenticated group of users and one set of ip
addresses to an unauthenticated set of users. It appears in their
current implementation nocat would require an authentication every time 
a user connects to the system and netreg would require a single
authentication event and subsequently would read the mac address from
the dhcpd.conf file and grant an authenticated ip address.

Regards,
Reuben


Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 27, 2009 at 11:34 PM, Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca> wrote:
>   
>> Have a look at the method used with NoCatAuth from http://nocat.net/
>> Might make a good starting point.
>>     
>
> Looked at it briefly, but it's not clear what's interesting in it. Is
> there something specific that nocat does really well?
>
> cheers,
>
>
>
> m
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