[Ewrt-devel] WRT54G and NoCatAuth ... rewritten ... ;-)

Wed Jul 7 07:52:22 PDT 2004

Hello,

> Okay, that could be fun. But why not help the folks who are working
> on adding radius support to Nocatsplash instead?  That seems like the
right way to go.

I guess that it would work ... However we are already running a medium sized
network with NoCatAuth installed, and are not using Radius.  Thinking about
it, the Radius solution would just mean that we would add a Radius server
and point it at our same LDAP directory.

>> Can you fit GPG in the firmware?  How much space is there?  What are 
>> my constraints?
>
> Weighing in at 4 megs (minus OpenSSL), GPG could probably fit on a
WRT54GS.
> But why would you want to?

Right now, the NoCat gateway uses GPG to 'sign' the communications between
the Auth server and the Gateway.  This is to ensure the authenticity of the
'commands' to open the firewall for the user.  Some of this is described
here:  http://wiki.personaltelco.net/index.cgi/NoCatAuthProtocol

It almost (yeah ... I hope!) seems that this is the core missing component
in NoCatSplash.  I was going to hit the NoCat mail list and ask what
happened to NoCatSplash and it's progress ... And see if Schyler had a
reason for not moving it forward ...

> good luck and happy hacking!

Thanks ... I'll let you know how it goes ... Thanks for the work so far!

Scott C. Lemon
80211.net L.L.C.
http://80211.net