chilli features...

Gunther Mayer gunther.mayer at googlemail.com
Fri Dec 28 12:54:53 UTC 2007


wlan at mac.com wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I have some ideas for new chilli features and wanted to run them by 
> the mailing list and ask for comments.
>
> Right now, when you use MAC authentication, if an access-reject is 
> returned, the user will still get assigned an IP address and will then 
> be given the captive portal. This is good as a way to have certain 
> devices bypass the captive portal. But, it would also be nice to use 
> MAC authentication as a way to manage blocked devices. I'm considering 
> an option which will have chilli drop all traffic from clients that 
> get an access-reject during mac authentication. When clients are in 
> the 'drop' state, all traffic from them is ignored.
We have considered this as well, though I think it's better do manage 
blocked devices based on a MAC blacklist in the radius backend. 
Otherwise those people whose MAC authentication legitimately fails (e.g. 
because they haven't registered theirs yet through some sort of web 
frontend) get blocked permanently.



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