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From: Andrew Beverley <andy@andybev.com>
To: Jozsef Kadlecsik <kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>
Cc: Ricardo Klein <klein.rfk@gmail.com>,
	Nick Khamis <symack@gmail.com>,
	netfilter <netfilter@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Dabase BAcked IPTables
Date: Sat, 29 Jun 2013 21:10:35 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1372536635.3924.89.camel@andrew-desktop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1306292014350.26742@blackhole.kfki.hu>

On Sat, 2013-06-29 at 20:19 +0200, Jozsef Kadlecsik wrote:
> > > * User logs into the website, and provides mac address
> > > * We insert the record in the database as an allow rule...
> > > * Restart iptables?
> 
> That's pretty similar to a captive portal, which is quite simple to setup: 
> you need a small webpage written say in PHP (IP and MAC can be gathered 
> directly if the webserver is on the same LAN) and a bitmap:ip,mac type of 
> set with timeout, and some static iptables rules. It's almost trivial if 
> the things run on the gateway.

And an example is here:

http://www.andybev.com/index.php/Using_iptables_and_PHP_to_create_a_captive_portal

Except it does not use ipset, which would be a *much* better way of
implementing it ;-)



  reply	other threads:[~2013-06-29 20:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-06-28 15:01 Dabase BAcked IPTables Nick Khamis
2013-06-28 15:12 ` Ricardo Klein
2013-06-29 18:19   ` Jozsef Kadlecsik
2013-06-29 20:10     ` Andrew Beverley [this message]
2013-06-29 20:39       ` Nick Khamis
2013-06-29 21:00         ` Neal Murphy
2013-06-29 23:12           ` Nick Khamis
2013-06-30 12:13             ` Dash Four
2013-06-30 13:27               ` Nick Khamis
2013-06-28 23:19 ` /dev/rob0
2013-06-29  0:00   ` Ricardo Klein
2013-06-29  0:05   ` Nick Khamis
2013-06-29  0:28     ` /dev/rob0
2013-06-29  1:21       ` Nick Khamis
2013-06-29 14:47         ` Eliezer Croitoru

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