Re: Question about hotel security design

["Nobody Special" <harmless () owbn org>]

The term you are looking for is "captive portal".

There are a couple of Linux firewall distros that have the funcationally
as a module or you can hack together your own version using NoCatAuth.

Useful links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captive_portal
http://nocat.net/

Linux firewall distros referenced above:
http://m0n0.ch/wall/
http://www.smoothwall.org/

If you are looking for one that is a drop and go CD (based on Knoppix)
designed to work with wireless hotspots you can look at ZoneCD.
http://www.publicip.net/zonecd/what.php


Hope this helps, now I await the 40+ messages from list members who have
auto-reply messages telling me they are out of the office.  :-/

-- 
Jimm

> Hello All,
>
> Can someone tell me how to design and configure the hotel room security
> control? As what I have experience before in a hotel, I will only be
> permitted to access to the Internet after I pay using the credit card.
> But I sometimes found that I have been assigned with IP addresses
butcannot >access to any port. When I access to the web port, it will
bring me to
> the payment page before I can access to the web.
> Can someone tell me how that is configured? What mechanism is used and
> what device is used?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Ricci


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