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Hi, I'm hoping someone can help me with the following setup:
I want to be able to control my networks in different locations from one primary place. I want to have computers connected to a router and have absolutely no internet access. I want a default homepage provided by the network to show up and ask the user to request to be activated. Once they request a connection (by submitting a form), I want that request re-routed to a main computer in my remote location and have my computer allow internet access at that location. Is this possible to do? If anyone has any knowledge, any help would be appreciated. Thanks.
What I want is close to an automated internet cafe:
A user can come in with their laptop and plugin the network cable into their machine. Any site site they try to access, they will always be returned to 1 main site -- my site. They click to activate internet access to their machine. My machine at home gets a request that a person at a site is trying to go online and will activate the connection to that computer.
>Possible?
It is definatly _possible_ but it may not be easy. One way would be to have a linux box at the remote location that by default blocks all outgoing connections except to port 80, and transparently redircts port 80 connections to a webserver at your home. The home web server needs a custom server-side script that serves a form, processes the returned form, connects to the remote linux box over an ssh/openssl connection and reconfigures it to allow internet access.
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