Chilli sometimes incorrectly NOT authorising a user by MAC

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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Derek C" <derekchilli at hssl.ie>
To: <chilli at coova.org>
Cc: <chilli at coova.org>
Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2009 4:45 AM
Subject: Re: Chilli sometimes incorrectly NOT authorising a user by MAC


> 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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