[Chilli] Disassociate clients that don't authorize themselves via portal?

[David Bird]

No, there isn't such a feature. You could disassociate clients perhaps
through the driver, but chances are the client will just re-associate
(unless there is another network it knows). You could have chilli drop
everything for the station, but that will not prevent the client from still
taking up airtime trying to (re)send packets. However, depending on the
client, it may drop the signal itself if it thinks it lost layer2
connectivity.


On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 7:21 AM, Ben West <ben at gowasabi.net> wrote:

> I"m curious if coovachilli v1.3.0, in my instance running under OpenWRT
> Attitude Adjustment, offers a way to actively disassociate clients who do
> not authorize themselves via the captive portal, but which still remain
> associated with the hotspot.
>
> The particular scenario I'm envisioning is someone's phone or tablet that
> automatically associates to an open SSID, but where the user doesn't bother
> clicking through the captive portal.  The device continues to try to
> periodically pull down content (e.g. app updates), sometimes quite
> furiously, causing a fair amount of useless traffic over the wifi channel,
> chewing up airtime.
>
> Or, instead of actively dissociating such an unauthorized client, perhaps
> instead have coovachilli run an iptables script after some inactivity
> timeout to begin throttling traffic to the client?
>
> Thank you.
>
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