Hello there

We are developing a captive version of the NoCat Gateway for the WRT54G. It's already coded and working, but we have a problem with modules.

We get an error when trying to use the mac extension of iptables: the error says "Couldn't load match `mac':File not found"

Initially we didn't have the ipt_mac.o module; now we have it, but still get the same message... any help on it?

thanks

1. Load the ipt_*.o module
2. Install the libipt_*.so plugin in /usr/lib/iptables

Thank you very much...

I had de.so in it's place, as a soft link, but it was pointing to the wrong place.
Thanks again

One other question yet...

Now we get this error:
iptables: match `mac' v1.2.9 (I'm v1.2.11).

Cannot find anywhere ipt_mac.o nor .so

Anyone knows where they can be?
thanks again

you can find ipt_mac.so in your iptables directory when you have enabled it for compilation in the iptables Makefile.

ipt_mac.o can be found in the kernel modules.tar.gz file when you had enabled in kernel configuration MAC compilation as module.

I don't know what your requirements are and what you want to achieve with your captive version of the NoCat Gateway. But I thing you should take a look at WifiDog captive portal. One goal of Wifidog development was for Nocat replacement (it can not run on embedded device easily). Many improvement added : No javascript pop-up, any network traffic keep you connection active and many more.

Here you can see the auth-server with the hotspot list of Ile Sans Fil network.

Wifidog is presently in heavy coding, many more features are coming.