Re: nocat can't fetch MAC from 1 hop away?

On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 02:08:06PM -0800, Drew wrote:
> NoCatAuth lives on AW1 (10.88.1.1), and when I connect a laptop 
> wirelessly to AW1, everything works great. But when I connect the same 
> laptop to AW4 (10.88.4.1), and try to go to google, I get the splash 
> screen on AW1 come up, I hit login, but it loops back to the login 
> screen again, and gets quite a few errors in the nocat.log, which you 
> can see below, after the successful login to AW1. NoCat seems to not be 
> able to get the MAC address of the client from 1 hop away, is that 
> normal? Any suggestions on things I can try? I've been strugging with 
> this problem for at least a year now.

You cannot get the MAC address when you are routing. All you can get is
the MAC of the router, which will not help you.

You might be able to get away with using the RouteOnly or IgnoreMAC options,
if you have your NAT box further towards the Internet.

/Niels

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