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Re: Machine Registration



On Fri, 20 Apr 2001 tps@unslept.com wrote:

> Hi All,
>   I've been asked to develop something like they have in Hotels,
> where, when you plug into the building Network, and fire up
> Nutscrape, the only thing you can get to is a page asking you
> register your machine before you can get out on the Net.
> 
> Now I can't believe that this is so proprietary, but I've not seen
> anything like this, even for $$$. Does anyone have an idea how they
> do this, or, even better, have something like this working already?
> 
> Tim
> 

Well, it shouldnt really be that hard to do.. DHCP and use private network
numbers.. A web server on the firewall that you log into, and scripts that
then rewrites the firewall rules on the fly...

Anyway, thats at least one way to do it.

/Roger





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