Chilli sometimes incorrectly NOT authorising a user by MAC

[Derek C]

Hi Wlanmac,

> Chilli (with the 'macauth') option only does MAC authentication when
> asked for a DHCP lease. It does this only the *first* time the lease is
> requested. The second time (or anytime thereafter) the device asks for a
> lease (that is still active), chilli is simply respond.

Is increasing the DHCP lease time in chilli.conf a fix for this?

> There is a new option in 1.0.13 callled 'macreauth' which will have
> chilli attempt a MAC authentication every time a user is redirected (in
> addition to the above use of 'macauth').

Or perhaps I need to move to 1.0.13

I'm using coova chilli via the kamikaze_8.09.  I see that the version
there is 1.0.12.  Does anyone know any good instructions for building the
newest coova chilli for openwrt?  (cross-compiling or including it into
the openwrt build?)

thanks very much!

Derek


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