RE: How to obtain a new wireless host's IP address?

Ok ... I'm going to take a shot at this ...  ;-)

Looking at the various *.fw files, you will see that they are all just shell
scripts.  You ought to be able to edit the access.fw script, and simply add
a statement to output the IP address parameter ($3?) to any other file, etc.
that you like.

Access.fw appears to look like:

==================================================
#!/bin/sh

# Note: your PATH is inherited from the gateway process
#

usage="Usage: $0 [permit|deny] [MAC] [IP] [Class]"
action=$1
mac=$2
ip=$3
class=$4

if [ "$action" == "permit" ]; then
    cmd="-A"
elif [ "$action" == "deny" ]; then
    cmd="-D"
else
    echo $usage
    exit 1
fi

if [ -z "$ip" ]; then
    echo $usage
    exit 1
fi

iptables -t nat $cmd NoCat_OK -j ACCEPT
==================================================

As you can see, it ought to be easy to just add a line to output any of the
parms that you want to ...


Scott C. Lemon
 
 


-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Pankaj Godbole
Sent: Monday, November 15, 2004 7:15 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NoCat] How to obtain a new wireless host's IP address?


Thanks! 

I am facing a couple of problems:

1) I'm using NoCatSplash which is written in C and so can't patch a Perl
script to it. Is there a C equivalent?
2) It appears that I would have to run access.fw explicitly.

I am wondering if there's a simple way to just have NoCatSplash itself send
a notification to stdout (or better yet a text file) with a new user's
MAC/IP addresses, apart from updating the IPTables?

I agree that just reading the IP tables would be a straightforward way. But
this would be a bit cumbersome for me since it would require my application
to sit in a loop periodically querying the IP tables, and afterwards update
a text file with the new info.

Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks,
Pankaj.







On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:24:44 -0500, Bernie O'Connor <[email protected]>
wrote:
> 
> See this thread that refers to the userlog patch:
> 
> http://lists.nocat.net/pipermail/nocat/2003-December/004067.html
> 
> The patch and description is here: 
> http://www.usegroup.de/software/nocat/
> 
> bernie
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Pankaj Godbole
> Sent: Friday, November 12, 2004 9:33 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: [NoCat] How to obtain a new wireless host's IP address?
> 
> Hi All,
> 
> I have a question regarding NoCatSplash. For a service that I am 
> developing for wireless clients, I need to obtain a new wireless 
> host's IP address or MAC address immediately after he/she is 
> authenticated.
> 
> My question is: Is there a way to obtain address information from 
> NoCatSplash without having to modify the source code? E.g. does 
> NoCatSplash update a text file with this information? If not, can I 
> somehow get NoCatSplash to run my own script to obtain the address 
> info., as soon as the user is authenticated? Please help.
> 
> Thanks,
> Pankaj.
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