How to have only intranet access, NO WWW
Hello everyone,
I am new here, just bought an ac1750/eap245v3,
there is any ways to block internet access to guests, by let them only browse whatever i put on a site hosted locally and NOT on the web?
Right now the (captive) portal display the splash page and redirect on this local site (192.168.....) correctly, all the users, so the problem is that from this point, onwards, they can go everywhere they want on the web and i simply would like to remove that option complitely for this particular setup, thanks for any help, i struggled for hours and hours but just i can't manage to find a way to do it....
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EAP245v3 wrote
There is a way to do this on the EAP-245???
No, you need to do this on the router (or switch in case of VLANs). If it is not possible with your router, consider to use a cheap spare router and install OpenWRT on it to physically separate the isolated network from your LAN. In OpenWRT it's easy to deny forwarding to the WAN.
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Two possible solutions:
- Create an own subnet for wireless users and deny forwarding in the router's firewall or
- create a VLAN, set up a separate DHCP server and exclude the router from this VLAN.
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There is a way to do this on the EAP-245???
I looked at the setting of my (cheap and unbranded) main router, it's very restrictive and there is no option to create another LAN, so, i was wondering if there is any possible workaround with the TP-link....
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EAP245v3 wrote
There is a way to do this on the EAP-245???
No, you need to do this on the router (or switch in case of VLANs). If it is not possible with your router, consider to use a cheap spare router and install OpenWRT on it to physically separate the isolated network from your LAN. In OpenWRT it's easy to deny forwarding to the WAN.
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Yes that's what i was thinking too, any suggestion for the currently best and easy to configure router?
Money are not much of an issue, as long as it reasonable, but not being able to configure properly many settings surely is, thanks.
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EAP245v3 wrote
Yes that's what i was thinking too, any suggestion for the currently best and easy to configure router?
There are 1,379 platforms supported by OpenWRT and more then 500 modern platforms running latest OpenWRT versions. Do you want a single board computer? A WiFi router? A router with good NAT throughput? A fast CPU? One CPU core or more? Plenty of RAM? Or a big Flash ROM? Web UI or cmdline? Any vendor/chip preferences? Etc.
If you want to buy a router rather than using an old one, see the list here and use the filter to find the router which is best for your demands.
It's difficult for me to recommend an easy to configure router since all of them are easy to configure if one knows the Linux universe, but I don't know whether you know (and like) the Linux cmdline. Almost all OpenWRT routers can be configured via a nice web UI, too, but to be honest if you have a good Linux knowledge, cmdline might be even easier than the web UI with its mouse click orgies.
My personal preference is the EdgeRouter-X, it costs ~ $50 and targets pro users. But its web UI is very limited and it runs Debian Linux by default with a not-so-easy config file syntax underneath. Albeit OpenWRT could be installed, too, it's somewhat harder to get it working on the ER-X compared to a SOHO router. But it uses a MIPS chip (a CPU from the field of supercomputers stripped down for embedded devices) and since I worked 25 years now with MIPS computers, my view of »ease of use« is definitely biased.
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