Hey all… ![]()
Ive successfully setup a NAS device with both pppoe server + hotspot with remote radius auth. Ok, authenticated pppoe users bypass all the hotspot stuff and go surf the web as hotspot authenticated users do. We want to shutdown pppoe servers to run hotspot only, but seems to be kinda troublesome.
New users that does not have pppoe client: Ok, grab an IP via hotspot, login and go surf. Old pppoe users dont know that they dont need to run a pppoe client to surf the web, so, they will grab an IP via hotspot and also will eventually (most probably) grab another IP via pppoe at the same time. But once the pppoe link is connected, their default gw will point to the pppoe side. No problem so far, they will surf the web.
Now, how to shutdown the pppoe server without have lots of users complaining that they cannot connect?
We thought that a simple NAT rule that match only pppoe users to whenever a HTTP request is made, this rule just redirect them to a “instructions page telling them to not use pppoe client, just do the hotspot login and go surf the web” somewhere else. Good, thats easy.
The problem is: When a user type something like “http://www.thatwebsite.com**/userwebspace/userpage.html**”, they see a browser error message. Is there a way to strip out “/userwebspace/userpage.html” and let them open the root index.html page, no matter what they type in the dst-path?
Thanks in advance!
Ozelo