Re: NoCat redirects its own requests to the auth service

my AP is a piece of crossover at the minute.

:)

On Friday 28 January 2005 02:46, Scott Tully wrote:
> Sounds like your AP is not configured correctly.  Hopefully something i say
> will be helpful ;-)
>
> What's probably occurring is the AP is sending it's own IP/MAC address to
> nocat and not alowing the IP/MAC of the client to passthru.  This results
> in the wrong iptable rule being written with an ip/mac combination that
> doesn't match your clients... resulting in the infamous login loop.   Is
> your client nat'ed behind the ap somehow? Setup dhcpd on your nocat
> gateway, and turn it off on the ap.  Your ap should be acting more like a
> wireless hub or switch... this might mean putting it in bridge mode.  If
> it's a router, don't use the WAN port.
>
> Hope this helps...
>
> Scott
>
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Philip Dowie" <[email protected]>
> To: <[email protected]>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 26, 2005 8:32 PM
> Subject: [NoCat] NoCat redirects its own requests to the auth service
>
> > I have a couple of strange events happening:
> >
> > 1) my NoCat installation just goes in a continual loop of redirecting any
> > request[to itself - I log in, attempt to go somewhere, and it asks me to
> > log in again.
> >
> >
> > 2)  If I tell it that it is not to capture requests to my auth service,
> > then I get 404 errors to the tune of
> > http://<auth>/;cgi-bin/5;url=<url>   not found, etc..
> >
> >
> >
> > NoCat gateway is running on a public/private ip combination, NoCatAuth
> > server is running on a public IP in the same (public) subnet as the
> > gateway.
> >
> > I'm using Self Signed SSL certificates until I get the system working,
> > when we will upgrade to proper certificated.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Any tips or pointers for me?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Regards
> >
> > Phil
> >
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