Network Security: Captive Portal

Abstract

Nowadays, to handle efficacy the numbers of people who uses the networks and to secure the access of this network, the enterprises or organisations installs a way to manage their actions. This way is called Captive portal. A Captive portal is an application responsible for controlling and managing the access of users to public and private networks in an automate way. In the proposed work, Captive portal is installed into Linux Debian and developed with PHP. Linux Debian will be a web server, database server and will have the necessary table routine. The entries are verified in the database, if the entries are valid, the user gets the internet access for certain period of time. If the entries are invalid access gets denied.

Keywords: Captive Portal, IPTABLE, DHCP, LAMP, LINUX, NAT

Cite this Article: Rasolofoniaina Samoelina Tahina, Garima Pathak. Network Security: Captive Portal. International Journal of Wireless Network Security. 2020; 6(1): 7–9p.