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by cbutler123

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I am looking for a 802.11b router or other solution that has the ability to serve up a web page when a client accesses the wireless network. The ideal scenario would be as follows: Upon powering on a laptop (802.11b enabled) the wireless network is detected. The user then starts a web browser which displays a custom html page. I?d like to be able to force this web page regardless of the default home page of the user. Any help would be appreciated.

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by mshavrov

How it's done on some public ISP's networks - they just forward ALL web traffic to their WEB or PROXY server. Then, after you subscribe for service, they allow traffic to go to Internet. But general idea is that they answer for your HTTP requests with their page.

Practically, if you use Cisco routers, you may forward configure WCCP to work with Proxy Server. If you have something else, you may configure your router with default IP gateway pointing to your SERVER, which will act as router/gateway/webserver/proxy/etc. It's can be done with UNIX, but I am not sure if there are any ready solution for that.

Good luck.

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