Re: [Captive-portals] User equipment identification

David Bird <dbird@google.com> Fri, 03 July 2020 23:05 UTC

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Subject: Re: [Captive-portals] User equipment identification
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Over the years now :) - I've also thought vendors might use something like
"http://<special-hijack-ip>/" with a NAS-non-integrated DHCP/ICMPv6 server,
so that the NAS might redirect to the appropriate
https://api-server/?unique-device-session-identifier.

On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 3:13 PM David Bird <dbird@google.com> wrote:

> I believe how to uniquely identify the user device has been distinctly
> left up to the implementers... It will depend on how you implement your
> DHCP and ICMPv6 services and where you reside your API server (e.g. within
> or outside any NATv4). Assuming you have full control of your DHCP server
> and perhaps use RFC 8273 <https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8273>, you can
> assign each subscriber a unique identifier during IP/prefix assignment. If
> that is not an option, then the API server probably has only the connecting
> IP address as the unique identifier...
>
> On Fri, Jul 3, 2020 at 1:27 PM Michael Schneider <
> michael.schneider@onway.ch> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have read the documents about CAPPORT and as a Captive Portal vendor I
>> find the current drafts very reasonable and well thought out. But a
>> question came up when I was thinking about a dual stack user equipment. How
>> does the client behave if it has an IPv4 and an IPv6 address and one of the
>> two addresses is captive=false and the other captive=true. Do you see ways
>> for the enforcement device to match these two addresses and allow both if
>> one of them gets captive=false? Furthermore, a user equipment can hold more
>> than one IPv6 address at a time and/or change it frequently.
>>
>> Many thanks for your advice.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Michael
>>
>> --
>> onway ag
>> Michael Schneider
>> Head of Development
>>
>> Stauffacherstrasse 16, CH-8004 Zürich
>> Tel: +41 55 214 18 35 <+41%2055%20214%2018%2035>
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