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Restrict Internet access from LAN

Original Message
Name: Toby Sullivan (by tsullivan)
Date: September 24, 2007 at 19:04:22 Pacific
Subject: Restrict Internet access from LAN
OS: Windows Vista
CPU/Ram: 2.2GHz/1.0GB
Comment:
At my school, they have an open wireless network set up. If you connect, all ports are blocked except 80 and if you attempt to visit any website, you are automatically redirected to a single site. At this site, you can enter a username and password. When you enter valid credentials, you are given full access to the internet.

I want to set this up on my private LAN at home.

I have a wireless router and a linux server. I'm assuming I would want to connect my linux server directly to the internet, then share that connection with the router, but where would I go from there? How do I restrict the traffic going through the server and then allow full access to particular clients on the lan?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated, thanks.


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Response Number 1
Name: Curt R
Date: September 25, 2007 at 07:20:52 Pacific
Subject: Restrict Internet access from LAN
Reply: (edit)
If it were me, I'd ask the IT department, probably the Network guys, at your school and ask them how they've configured this.

I suspect they're using an Enterprise level wireless system that allows this type of configuration via it's software.

You may be able to do this with a Linux based server but with my limited UNIIX/Linux skills I wouldn't even be able to begin to figure out how.

You may want to try posting this in the Linux/UNIX forum as well.


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Response Number 2
Name: wanderer
Date: September 25, 2007 at 08:06:39 Pacific
Subject: Restrict Internet access from LAN
Reply: (edit)
Hint: internet cafe software. You proxy the wireless connection.

Imagine the power if you knew how to internet search


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