[Commotion-discuss] Commotion Splash Screen

Ryan Gerety gerety at opentechinstitute.org
Thu Sep 12 14:11:24 UTC 2013


For now, we just need a way to let people know there is a
splash/community/apps page right?

Perhaps access points should be named "go to x" so that people would
have some idea of where to go?



On 9/12/2013 8:24 AM, Dan Staples wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> Unfortunately, the splash screen currently requires internet access to
> function. This is because the captive portal program intercepts and
> modifies responses to clients' DNS requests, and those responses only
> occur if DNS servers are available in the first place. With no internet
> access, no DNS response, no splash screen.
> 
> I have worked on creating a captive portal solution for
> non-internet-connected Commotion networks, and it in fact works. The
> problem is that there is currently no way to have a router auto-detect
> whether it is currently connected to the internet or not, and then
> auto-configure its captive portal to do the right thing. If your network
> suffered an internet outage, you would have to either restart DNSmasq on
> each node, or reboot all the nodes, in order for the splash screen to
> continue to function. And then do the same thing once internet access
> was restored.
> 
> There might be a way to run a script periodically to check for internet
> connectivity, and then restart DNSmasq if it detects an outage. I'll try
> to work on that and see what I can do.
> 
> Do you know what versions of Firefox and Chrome didn't work with the
> splash page? If you can find out, I can look into that too.
> 
> cheers,
> Dan
> 
> 
> On 09/12/2013 07:40 AM, Dan Hastings wrote:
>> Yesterday we had our first large internet outage since setting up our
>> first few commotion nodes.  I have our homepage in the our computer lab
>> set to google.com but since we are on an open network the commotion
>> splash screen comes up first.  This is great since it makes it easier
>> for students to access local applications without having to memorize the
>> location of the applications on the network. 
>>
>> However, when our net went out the splash screen did not come up.  I was
>> wondering if anyone knew a way to set the splash screen so it will come
>> up regardless if their is internet access. Should the splash screen
>> appear anyway regardless and am I'm missing something in the captive
>> portal settings? Is there way to set the splash screen as a homepage?
>>
>> Also, I've noticed that some students who are running older versions of
>> Firefox and chrome in windows 7 would not be redirected to the splash
>> screen and could not access the internet.  After updating their browsers
>> we seemed to get to the splash screen fine to allow internet access. Not
>> sure if this has been a problem in the past or of I'm missing something
>> as well.
>>
>> Any guidance or help would be much appreciated.
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Dan
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