WiFi

  • 07 April 2017

Captive Portal Overview

I originally authored this on Aug 16, 2016 at http://unix.stackexchange.com. Considering my tutorial did not include an overview, I thought I would re-post it on my blog.


To make a captive portal appear, you need to stop all internet traffic and provide a 302 … Read more 

  • 24 March 2017

Captive Portal Restaurant Menu

I have been contacted several times in regards to my captive portal post. In India there seems to be a surge in popularity for restaurants to have an open WiFi that prompts a user to open up a menu/splash page. The caveat being the legal issues encountered when providing free, open wireless internet. In order to avoid legal issues, the device that …

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  • 15 July 2016

OpenWRT Captive Portal

In a previous post, I explained how to set up a captive portal on a Raspberry Pi which was running Raspbian (Debian). If you read that article, you can skip the next paragraph.

A captive portal is a piece of software that prompts for user interaction befo…

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  • 11 March 2016

WiFi Captive Portal

A captive portal is a piece of software that prompts for user interaction before allowing the client to access the internet or other resources on the network. It is a combination of a firewall and a webserver. In this tutorial, I will explain how to create an open WiFi network. Before deploying an open WiFi network, you may want to consult a lawyer…

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