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- How do you make a captive portal in Linux?
- How do you make a captive portal for WiFi?
- What is CoovaChilli?
- Where is the captive portal URL?
How do you make a captive portal in Linux?
DNS configuration and basic settings :
For creating a captive portal page for your hotspot, the first thing you need to do is the basic configuration settings. Firstly connect your Linux machine to your router through ethernet ( this would generally show as the Eth0 interface in your machine .)
How do you make a captive portal for WiFi?
To create a captive portal using the NETGEAR Insight mobile app:
- Launch the Insight app.
- If the managed devices do not display, in the menu at the bottom, tap Devices.
- Select the access point that you want to configure.
- Tap WiFi Networks.
- Tap the WiFi network that you created for this access point.
- Tap Captive Portal.
What is CoovaChilli?
CoovaChilli is a feature rich software access controller that provides a captive portal / walled-garden environment and uses RADIUS for access provisioning and accounting. CoovaChilli is an integral part of the CoovaAP OpenWRT-based firmware which is specialized for hotspots.
Where is the captive portal URL?
1 Answer. From this answer on Stack Overflow, Captive Portal is triggered only when you're trying to make a request. So the answer is: Open an arbitrary web page in your favorite browser, and you'll get redirected to the Captive Portal login page.
