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Re:Free Public WiFi by bane on Sunday July 30, 2023 @11:49PM (#36938625)
Out of curiosity how do you deal with situations where the public wifi has one of those middle pages that you have to type in or click something (captive portal?) before the access point grants access?
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Re:Free Public WiFi by DistractionRect on Monday July 31, 2023 @12:07AM (#36938717)
Dnsmasq has a neat feature where you can populate ipsets/nftsets with responses to dns queries. So I have it populate a set with the IPs for sites like neverssl.com, and use a firewall rule to route requests to destinations in the set through wan without sending it through the VPN. Usually works.
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Re:Free Public WiFi by gumby on Monday July 31, 2023 @01:50AM (#36939215)
One way is to change the MAC address of your laptop to that of the router, authenticate, and then connect the router (and change your laptop back)
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