Captive Portal & GL-USB150

rangerz · 2017-08-04T05:45:39.000Z

A bit technical for me.

I found that if I entered the captive portal URL directly, instead of waiting (hoping) for a redirect, that it mostly worked. The only issue I recall was that the lease times were not a full 12\24. It’s been a while since I traveled, but yes this was one of the more frustrating issues with a travel router.

I think it’s the same for all OpenWrt.

ds-iceland · 2017-08-08T05:29:42.000Z

Typing this from a Marriott via my AR150 after using the tip from @sammo. Two weeks ago I was unable to access the wireless at this same location.

Later this week I’ll be at another hotel where I was unable to access the wireless and will continue testing the @sammo tip.

lostdog · 2017-08-08T13:03:11.000Z

@ds-Iceland - What was the tip that worked? <em style=“outline: none; vertical-align: baseline; background: #f9f9f9; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: source_sans_proregular, ‘Helvetica Neue’, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6667px;”>option rebind_protection 0 then back to 1 once you are registered?

sammo · 2017-08-08T18:40:46.000Z

@ds-iceland, if you find you are visiting the same hotel with captive portal, you can do whitelisting

Leave

rebind_protection ‘1’

After captive portal fails and add the website to whitelisting, ‘logread’ will tell you the website thats bening redirect

This way you dont have to keep changing the rebind_protection.

Obviously you will need to add to whitelisting for each new captive portal

tangxiusi · 2017-08-08T19:20:27.000Z

@ds-iceland，if the problem is the captive portal failure, I think used the computer’s MAC to the AR300M is the sasy way to solve the problem, gedit the /etc/config/network for

config interface ‘wan’

option ‘macaddr’ ‘computer’s MAC’

glitch · 2017-08-09T03:05:25.000Z

>> After captive portal fails and add the website to whitelisting, ‘logread’ will tell you the website thats bening redirect.

Hi.
Excuse my ignorance but:

how to do a “logread”
how to “whitelist”?

Thanks in advance,
Glitch

eekthecat · 2017-08-10T03:00:36.000Z

@sammo thanks, this was useful for me too. Got a captive portal that would not work (DNS unable to resolve), changing the setting worked for me.

Explaining what rebind_protection does: When enabled DNS queries cannot be answered with a local IP address. OpenWrt has it turned on as default.

@alzhao; Maybe an idea to make it on ON/OFF button in the GUI?
I’m a Information Security Officer at a large firm, myself and many colleagues travel a lot. The AR300M is always with me and I encourage each and everyone around me to get one for themselves. But it must be fool-proof. I might have a deep technical background but many of my colleagues don’t. Hence that is why I like the GLI stuff so much! Keep it up!

alzhao · 2017-08-10T13:59:22.000Z

@EEKtheCAT, yes, we need to solve these issues. This is a big problem.

sammo · 2017-08-10T16:12:10.000Z

@Glitch, logread is a command on the unix shell level, tells you what’s happening. Guide below should help

Michal Čihař – 31 Jan 11

OpenWRT and resolving private ranges

For quite a long time, I have a problem, that DNS in my OpenWRT box does not resolv local range on wan interface. Today I have leared that it is doing it in order to protect me.

@EEKtheCAT,

You want it automated, no buttons as the average user would forget the button or what it does.

glitch · 2017-08-10T16:31:03.000Z

OK, regarding whitelisting, I finally found the solution and answered my own question:

Luci > network > DHCP and DNS > general settings.
The last box is “Domain whitelist”. Enter the captive portal domain here eg. captiveportal.com.
I believe this has the same effect as editing the /etc/config/dhcp file (under config dnsmasq) and adding the line:

list rebind_domain captiveportal.com

Regards,
Glitch

PS. @sammo: thanks, reading the link now.

sammo · 2017-08-10T16:41:55.000Z

@Glitch,

Thanks, I have never setup my box using the Luci/gui ever.

I have only ever needed 1 scenario, and thats repeater mode (natted) and I have heavily customised mine.

ds-iceland · 2017-08-11T05:10:11.000Z

Second hotel and second time the tip from @sammo worked!

So happy with how it works that I’ve created two simple shell scripts to copy a version of dhcp with option rebind_protection set to either 0 or 1 over the file in /etc/config and restart the dnsmasq service. Yes I’m lazy

It requires me to attach the AR150 to the captive portal network (with the GUI), then SSH into the AR150 and run the script. But what counts (for me) is that this solution works and can be done from either a laptop or smart phone.

Thank you for the information @sammo, I’m in love with my AR150 all over again.

ds-iceland · 2017-08-13T10:45:43.000Z

Thinking about the suggestion from @EEKtheCAT to use the button to set ‘rebind_protection’ - it would save me from having to SSH into the AR150 and edit ‘rebind_protection’. This evening I disabled the button on my AR150 (it was set to activate / deactivate VPN via the GUI). With the aid of some code my AR150’s button now controls setting ‘rebind_protection’ to 0 or 1.

glitch · 2017-08-13T16:24:44.000Z

@ ds

Of course you are going to share the code

Did you try white-listing the portal instead of the rebind option?

Glitch

ds-iceland · 2017-08-14T20:18:38.000Z

Per your request @Glitch, my code is attached. The install directions are:

extract the contents of portal.zip
copy the “portal” directory (and its contents) to /root
cd to the “/root/portal” directory
Perform “chmod +x” on /root/portal/config.sh
Run config.sh (./config.sh)
Reboot

Feel free to test / use / modify as you wish.

eekthecat · 2017-08-14T22:18:12.000Z

@ds-Iceland Cool! Now lets see if this can be obtained in the stable

sammo · 2017-08-14T23:55:16.000Z

@ds-iceland Everybody dhcp might be slightly different. Here’s a one liner, substitute in place

Disabled

sed -i – “s/^[[:blank:]]*option[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]rebind_protection.$/ option rebind_protection ‘0’/” /etc/config/dhcp

Enabled

sed -i – “s/^[[:blank:]]*option[[:blank:]][[:blank:]]rebind_protection.$/ option rebind_protection ‘1’/” /etc/config/dhcp

ds-iceland · 2017-08-15T01:14:09.000Z

My dhcp file is stock, however you raise a good point @sammo. A revised version of the code using your in-place edit has been attached to my previous post as portal-v2.zip.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed to this effort.

alzhao · 2017-08-15T15:04:06.000Z

why not use uci instead of sed

Disabled:

uci set dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].rebind_protection=‘0’

uci commit dhcp

Enabled:

uci set dhcp.@dnsmasq[0].rebind_protection=‘1’

uci commit dhcp

glitch · 2017-08-15T16:39:37.000Z

@ ds: thanks for sharing
@ everyone else: you just got to love this forum and the people that contribute to it!

Glitch