2013-08-08 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Installing grase hotspot on laptop with eth0 and wlan0

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From: Tim White <ti***8@gmail.com>
Message Hash: 2af2cc3372305e6f85f7c6946c1dc3b72eaed8fd74fd9e6cf9de02bac9bc27f9
Message ID: <52040675.4010405@gmail.com>
Reply To: <DUB120-W9AAF2B1FE78D17DD958FFB25C0@phx.gbl>
UTC Datetime: 2013-08-08 13:58:29 UTC
Raw Date: Fri, 09 Aug 2013 06:58:29 +1000

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On 05/08/13 15:45, Boniface M. Nyaga wrote:
> Hi all,
> I have been using grase hotspot for a while on my desktop computer. Of 
> late i sold the desktop in order to get a new laptop dell with 500GB 
> HDD and 4GB RAM duo processor.
>
> i installed ubuntu desktop 12.10 and also installed grase 
> successfully. i can even log in to the grase admin section from 
> another computer within the grase LAN. the only problem is that when 
> trying to access any web address there is no redirection to the login 
> screen.
> can someone help me out on how i should configure it.
>
> this is my setup;
>
> 1.Grase hotspot will lan on my laptop LAN  adapter which is only one 
> (eth0) which i have connected  to a switch and my access point with 
> dhcp disabled also connected on the switch and on same ip subnet as 
> grase.(All set done perfectly)
> 2.The laptop connects to my ISP through the wireless WLAN adapter 
> (wlan0) which works ok.
>
> _*My problem*_
> how should i configure grase so that it can work and redirect to login 
> page when a user on the LAN of grase browses any website?


Go in to the Grase admin section, find the network settings and ensure 
the LAN and WAN settings are correct (i.e. LAN is set to eth0 and WAN is 
set to wlan0). THEN, press save and then reboot.

Report back after doing that.

Tim

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