Aside from the business model of upgrades, there is also the academic
institution situation which you mention, where captive portals are often used.
The student or faculty must login.
It's not just for WIFI (there may be an additional layer of security there!).
There may be filters which will prevent:
Nicolas Mailhot <[email protected]> wrote:
> Most walled gardens will want something like 'free access to
> pr.institutionalsite.com/intranet.mybusiness.net/library.school.com',
> downloading gigs of videos from youtube requires autorisation,
> sex.xxx.com, playingatwork.net and examsolutions.cheater.org are
> forbidden.
And there may be different responses needed for:
1) a specific login/upgrade/override code (from the teacher) will allow
access to X. I think that this is common.
2) no matter what you enter, you won't get to sex.xxx.com.
I don't think we need anything new for this, ICMP Admin prohibit is good.
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Michael Richardson <[email protected]>, Sandelman Software Works
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