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Ask HN: Setting up a captive portal

2 points by taylorcooney ↗ HN
Hey guys,

I asked this yesterday but didn't get much insight. The documentation and solutions are quite dated for setting up a public WiFi spot with a captive portal. Are there any resources that I am overlooking into how one can build a solution for small business? Setting up the hardware and creating the portal.

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prancingslug
Untangle has captive portal functionality; It's a linux based OS with firewall, vpn, and a bunch of other stuff. you need hardware with 2 NICs.

We run it for a small busniess off of a refurbished desktop and it works fine for roughly 250 connected users at any given time.

Here's a link to the home page: https://www.untangle.com/ And to the captive portal section of the wiki: https://wiki.untangle.com/index.php/Captive_Portal

Alternatively you could get a router compatible with OpenWRT or Tomato firmware and set up a captive portal on the router itself.