can you do this with a spare wifi router.

[Crash893]

Hi all,

I recently acquired an older link sys befw11s4 v3

and the long and short of it is that i wanted to make a unsecured access point that would only allow the user to go to one web page.


anyone have any idea on how i could do this?

[Knacko]

Someone tried something similar to what you're trying to do. Instead of just filtering the traffic to one page, they wrote a script that will flip all the images of a visited webpage. You might be able to get some ideas out of it:

http://www.ex-parrot.com/~pete/upside-down-ternet.html

[Crash893]

mabey something with routing tables

[Mpegger]

LOL! I feel like turning on my wifi router and doing something like that in Smoothwall now. Hilarious!!

[Crash893]

i know some people have been able to run apachy servers off of there routers anyone know how

im googleing it now

[Mpegger]

Doesnt that depends on the router? I was looking into something like that some time ago. I cant remember the exact model, but I think it was a certain Linksys router that was basically a embedded PC that ran a Linux kernal on it. It could be replaced with a better Linux firewall that offered alot more control and options, but later revisions of that router reduced the onboard memory and I never looked more into it after that.

So it is possible, but dependent on the hardware used.

[schnikies79]

Doesnt that depends on the router? I was looking into something like that some time ago. I cant remember the exact model, but I think it was a certain Linksys router that was basically a embedded PC that ran a Linux kernal on it. It could be replaced with a better Linux firewall that offered alot more control and options, but later revisions of that router reduced the onboard memory and I never looked more into it after that.

So it is possible, but dependent on the hardware used.

That would be the WRT54G model 4 and lower. If you still want the linux model from linksys, the WRT54GL does the trick.

[tyler_bishop]

Figure out how to put DD-WRT on it and use sputnik :D

[Crash893]

English please

[nd4spdbh2]

Figure out how to put DD-WRT on it and use sputnik :D

what is sputnik btw... i have run dd-wrt on my WRT54GL and i never knew what that was...

Also that flipped image thing is GREAT! that would be halarious.

[Bender]

Are you trying to host the web page yourself or is the page actually on the internet.

You can really only use the befw11s4 v3 as an acces point so you would need a server as well. There are many newer routers that run linux so you could go that rout. Perhaps the least expensive of these linux capable routers is the Fonera. I bought a few for under $15 each shipped.

[Crash893]

bender do you have a model or linkage

[gangaskan]

using zone-cd with your AP may be what you are looking for. i know they do content filtering with their services. and they require a Login to access, that the user can create.

you can also block ceritan ports from being accessed. (my school is in the process of setting this up to only 80,443 for basic web traffic and to block P2P as much as possible.)


i'm not so sure what zone cd does, but it looks fairly configurable. or you may be able to just set up a proxy server, and use the deafult gateway on that router to the machine with a proxy.

[Bender]

Crash there are a ton of models that will work. Check out the list of devices here http://wiki.openwrt.org/TableOfHardware There are many more that will work if someone will spend the time to figure it out. Here is a La Fonera like I have http://cgi.ebay.com/New-La-Fonera-Fon-Wifi-Wireless-Network-Router_W0QQitemZ330114118970QQihZ014QQcategoryZ449 97QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem although I have one running openwrt and the other dd-wrt.

I also have a Netgear WGT634U running OpenWRT linux. The cool thing about this one is it has USB. With USB and the correct drivers you add do just about anything. Some have even added USB video cards. I changed the wireless card (mini pci) in this one to a genaric Atheros AR5006XS for even better performance.

[four4875]

dhcp out a bogus dns server pointing everything at your page? i dunno how you'd set up the dns server to do it tho.

[fUzZ bUnNy]

I am curious about the whole setup. Do you want to force registration for use or do you want the user to just go to one website.

Based on an educated guess, I think that you want to set up a radius server. There are some packages in Linux/ Unix for freeRadius that would be very applicable.

By enabling radius, you are then telling every pc on your lan to be redirected to a specific webpage (usually for authentication.)

If this is not what you are interested in doing, then I would just set up an access list that only allows the user to go to one ip. As for the Linksys being able to do that, I kinda doubt it because for the most part they have weaker port filtering and access control than their Cisco big brothers.