On Fri, 06 Jan 2012 22:36:40 +0100, Per Jessen wrote:
Why not openSuSE? Not that this situation will be encountered very often, but it does violate Wolfgang's Principle of Least Astonishment.
I think it would be a clever thing to do - I don't know how often it's going to be really useful, but still.
I agree. A real world example is my university. On the wired network, when a unknown hw-address connects (and is not 802.1x capable) they are placed on a registration vlan and given a temporary dhcp lease. All www is redirected to a captive portal and the user is supposed to give his credentials. If the user succeeds entering a username and a password, we register his mac-address in our database and instructs the switch to put the the port offline for a short while. This is seen from the the client as a disconnect/connect and the process restarts, only this time the hw-addresss is known to the switch and the client is now placed on a suitable vlan. I think this is how most captive portals work. If it is correct that 12.1 just reuses the registration lease after the network has toggled. Then network registration will now take several minutes until the registration lease expires, as opposed to something like 30 sec. for Windows and Mac users. I will certainly have to test this tomorrow, when I get to work. -- Klaus -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org