Re: Is there anybody out there?

You could probably do something like that by simply processing the DHCP log
files on your server.  If you were to count the unique MAC addresses, and
maybe the number of times each one appeared on your network ...

You could use a short (maybe 1 day or less?) lease time ... And then post
process each day into a db that you could report off of ...


Scott C. Lemon
 
 

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]
On Behalf Of Jay
Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:00 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NoCat] Is there anybody out there?

We have been using Nocat since 2003 at our public Library. One thing we are
seeing is more hand held devices that want to connect to the net but can't
bring up a WEB page to authenticate against so they can't use our service.
The only reason we use nocat is to get statistics. 4,500 - 5,500 people a
month use our service. I would like a captive portal to just "Count" the
connections being whatever protocol the user is using and not make them
"Accept" our terms.  Idea's ?

Thanks
-Jay

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