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*** We'd have to add an extra bit in there '''--destination 10.x.x.1'''
*** We'd have to add an extra bit in there '''--destination 10.x.x.1'''
* A web server listening on the redirect ports (31337/TCP and 31338/TCP) uses URI rewriting to point everything to a special URI:
* A web server listening on the redirect ports (31337/TCP and 31338/TCP) uses URI rewriting to point everything to a special URI:
** '''RewriteRule .* https://byzantium.mesh/ [R,L]'''
  <VirtualHost *:31337>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule .* https://byzantium.mesh/ [R,L]
  </VirtualHost>
 
  <VirtualHost *:31338>
  RewriteEngine On
  RewriteRule .* https://byzantium.mesh/ [R,L]
  </VirtualHost>
 
* The web server listening on ports 31337/TCP and 31338/TCP serves a page to the client.  The client reads the text ("This is a wireless mesh, stuff about OPSEC, click here to pass through to the directory of services.") and clicks a button.
* The web server listening on ports 31337/TCP and 31338/TCP serves a page to the client.  The client reads the text ("This is a wireless mesh, stuff about OPSEC, click here to pass through to the directory of services.") and clicks a button.
** It'd be nice if the page also optionally displayed a message "There is a gateway to the public Net, so you can browse outside of this mesh." if a gateway route existed and had been propagated.
** It'd be nice if the page also optionally displayed a message "There is a gateway to the public Net, so you can browse outside of this mesh." if a gateway route existed and had been propagated.
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* We may have either modify or subclass the Captive::Portal class and add support for extracting and using the IP address of the client interface (wlan0:1) rather than just the physical interface (wlan0).  It's been a long time since I've done OO under Perl but it's certainly possible.
* We may have either modify or subclass the Captive::Portal class and add support for extracting and using the IP address of the client interface (wlan0:1) rather than just the physical interface (wlan0).  It's been a long time since I've done OO under Perl but it's certainly possible.
* config.pl should be configured for no authentication (i.e., just a click-through).
* config.pl should be configured for no authentication (i.e., just a click-through).
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Latest revision as of 09:45, 3 April 2012

  • By default, access is denied.
  • Traffic destined for anywhere but to a select few services (i.e., TCP or UDP ports) is blocked by the local firewall.
    • NTP
    • IMAP(S)
    • POP(S)
    • OpenVPN
    • IPsec
  • HTTP(S) traffic caught by firewall, redirected to the mesh node's client IP and port.
    • iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wlan0 -p tcp --dport 80 -j REDIRECT --to-port 31337
    • iptables -t nat -A PREROUTING -i wlan0 -p tcp --dport 443 -j REDIRECT --to-port 31338
      • We'd have to add an extra bit in there --destination 10.x.x.1
  • A web server listening on the redirect ports (31337/TCP and 31338/TCP) uses URI rewriting to point everything to a special URI:
 <VirtualHost *:31337>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule .* https://byzantium.mesh/ [R,L]
 </VirtualHost>
 
 <VirtualHost *:31338>
 RewriteEngine On
 RewriteRule .* https://byzantium.mesh/ [R,L]
 </VirtualHost>
  • The web server listening on ports 31337/TCP and 31338/TCP serves a page to the client. The client reads the text ("This is a wireless mesh, stuff about OPSEC, click here to pass through to the directory of services.") and clicks a button.
    • It'd be nice if the page also optionally displayed a message "There is a gateway to the public Net, so you can browse outside of this mesh." if a gateway route existed and had been propagated.
  • When the button is clicked the firewall is updated to permit that MAC address to send traffic.
    • ipset -A capo_sessions_ipset CLIENT_IP,CLIENT_MAC
    • Yes, MAC spoofing to bypass this is trivial. This isn't to prevent people from getting online if they don't have a valid room number, it's to force them to see a message from the admin and then kick them over to a directory of services curated by the node's software.
  • Set a timeout on the client IP? 10 minutes? 60 minutes? 5 minutes (same as DHCP lease time)?
    • ipset -D capo_sessinos_ipset CLIENT_IP
    • Captive::Portal includes a script (capo-ctl.pl) which already does this. In fact, you're supposed to run it from cron every ten minutes or so to clean out idle sessions.
  • Captive::Portal requires iptables (have it), ipset (need to compile and install it), and a rule in /etc/sudoers so it can run without privileges but still carry out privileged tasks.
  • fping is used to test idle sessions (have it).
  • A CGI script that implements a captive portal is included in Captive::Portal, it's called capo.cgi and runs under Apache.
  • Basics of coding with this module:
 my $capo = Captive::Portal->new(cfg_file=>$cfg_file);
 while (my $eq = CGI::Fast->new){
   $capo->run($q);
 }
  • capo-ctl.pl is included with the module and manipulates the currently running IPtables rules (as well as backing store of Captive::Portal) with the ipset utility
  • Everything Captive::Portal relies on the same configuration file (by default, config.pl).
  • mock-server.pl is a script that pulls the HTML from a URI (say, a web server listening on wlan0) and spits it to stdout for testing.
  • Used for testing your setup without needing a client.
  • test-server.pl implements a very simple HTTP server so you can test your capi.cgi script without having to configure Apache.
  • We might have to modify capo.cgi to use the DBI Perl module to access the SQLite databases that hold the directories of services users can reach.
  • We may have either modify or subclass the Captive::Portal class and add support for extracting and using the IP address of the client interface (wlan0:1) rather than just the physical interface (wlan0). It's been a long time since I've done OO under Perl but it's certainly possible.
  • config.pl should be configured for no authentication (i.e., just a click-through).
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