13 Mar
2019
13 Mar
'19
2:28 p.m.
It depends what you want to achieve. I assume that you just want the
mesh network to extend the existing campus network and have students
sign in with their ID as normal via the mesh?
If so, you could use batman-adv which is a layer 2 mesh networking
protocol. Seen from the campus network's point of view the entire mesh
network should just look like a regular ethernet switch.
On 3/13/19, Carolyn "Lynn" Knight <gigavinyl(a)riseup.net> wrote:
Heya! I'm planning an installation of a meshnet
node in my campus apartment
(and hopefully deploying more nodes on campus?) but I'm concerned about our
captive portal.
Whenever someone logs onto the campus residential internet, we have to sign
in with our student ID and then our MAC address is logged. When you plug a
wifi router into one of these campus ethernet ports, they force you to set
it up in LAN cascade mode which just makes the router act like an extension
of the campus routers (I think? Correct me if I'm wrong here.)
What can be done about this so we can set up meshnet nodes?
Thanks!
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