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On Wed, 12 Jun 2013, Martijn Grooten wrote:
On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:32 PM, Gordon Henderson wrote:Some devices have issues - All Apple iDevices phone home to see if they are connected to the big bad internet so you can't implement a 2-state login process, it all has to be on the one page, else the iDevice thinks it's not connected and resets...That's one of those things that will cause you a big headache when you implement something yourself using iptables/qos etc. Which is why I think using some third-party tool is probably the best idea.
Most of the third party tools do it the same way. At least that's what I found when searching about it. Apple broke lots and lots of captive portals overnight and everyone was scrabbling round to "fix" them just to please the iDevice junkies.
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