2013-11-21 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] WAP Configuration

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From: Johnny Solbu <so***u@solbu.net>
Message Hash: bd22a9a71e243361b402c0563f9bdb96f7ac2e0fbd9796826e7b4e929fb04ca3
Message ID: <201311211535.31065.solbu@solbu.net>
Reply To: <E1VjQXN-0005Dh-Qy@rmm6prod02.runbox.com>
UTC Datetime: 2013-11-21 07:35:27 UTC
Raw Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2013 15:35:27 +0100

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On Thursday 21. November 2013 10.27, Chris Stebbing wrote:
> It seems I just needed to leave the wireless router in default configuration - which seems a little strange as it has it's own DHCP server running as well, but everything seems to work.

The problem of leaving wireless routers in default configuration is that the router is authenticating, and not the wireless clients (the users) connected to the wireless router. Meaning, everyone connecting to the wireless access point, say 5 users, might be logged in to Grase as one user and not five.
The wireless router needs to be configured as an Access Point and not a normal NAT routing device, which is the default. Some routers need to be in Bridge mode to do this.

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