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A captive portal is a web page displayed to users of a Wi-Fi or wired network before they can access network resources. Learn how captive portals are used for authentication, marketing, and legal purposes, and how they can be detected and bypassed.
pfSense is a computer software distribution that can be installed on physical or virtual machines to create a dedicated firewall/router for a network. It has features such as traffic shaping, VPNs, captive portal, stateful firewall, and network address translation.
A comprehensive list of operating systems designed for use as routers and/or firewalls, with their status, type, architecture, license, cost and description. Includes Linux, FreeBSD and other distributions, such as Alpine Linux, IPFire, OPNsense, pfSense and more.
AmazingPorts is a Linux-based software product customized for use as a firewall, captive portal and billing system (Hotspots). The project started in 2001. Description. AmazingPorts is mainly deployed as an access control system in private and public networks.
WiFiDog was an open source solution for wireless hotspots, but it is no longer updated. It consists of a gateway and an authentication server, and it is included in OpenWrt software package.
PacketFence is an open-source network access control (NAC) system that provides registration, detection, isolation, remediation and integration features. It is developed by Inverse Inc., a subsidiary of Akamai Technologies, and supports Linux and Debian operating systems.
Network access control (NAC) is an approach to computer security that unifies endpoint security technology (such as antivirus) with network security enforcement. NAC aims to prevent non-compliant devices from accessing the network and to remediate them with quarantine or captive portals.
An evil twin is a fraudulent Wi-Fi access point that eavesdrops on wireless communications and steals passwords. Learn how it works, see examples and references, and find related links.