<HTML ><HEAD ><TITLE >Authentication Gateway HOWTO</TITLE ><META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="Modular DocBook HTML Stylesheet Version 1.7"><LINK REL="NEXT" TITLE="Introduction" HREF="intro.html"></HEAD ><BODY CLASS="ARTICLE" BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#000000" LINK="#0000FF" VLINK="#840084" ALINK="#0000FF" ><DIV CLASS="ARTICLE" ><DIV CLASS="TITLEPAGE" ><H1 CLASS="TITLE" ><A NAME="AEN2" ></A >Authentication Gateway HOWTO</H1 ><H3 CLASS="AUTHOR" ><A NAME="AEN4" >Nathan Zorn</A ></H3 ><DIV CLASS="AFFILIATION" ><DIV CLASS="ADDRESS" ><P CLASS="ADDRESS" > <TT CLASS="EMAIL" ><<A HREF="mailto:zornnh@musc.edu" >zornnh@musc.edu</A >></TT ><br> </P ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="REVHISTORY" ><TABLE WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" ><TR ><TH ALIGN="LEFT" VALIGN="TOP" COLSPAN="3" ><B >Revision History</B ></TH ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.05</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-11-05</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.05</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-05-10</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: nhz</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.04</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2002-02-28</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: nhz</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.03</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-09-28</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: nhz</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.02</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-09-28</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: KET</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revision 0.01</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >2001-09-06</TD ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" >Revised by: nhz</TD ></TR ><TR ><TD ALIGN="LEFT" COLSPAN="3" ></TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ><DIV ><DIV CLASS="ABSTRACT" ><A NAME="AEN35" ></A ><P ></P ><P > There are many concerns with the security of wireless networks and public access areas such as libraries or dormitories. These concerns are not met with current security implementations. A work around has been proposed by using an authentication gateway. This gateway addresses the security concerns by forcing the user to authenticate in order to use the network. </P ><P ></P ></DIV ></DIV ><HR></DIV ><DIV CLASS="TOC" ><DL ><DT ><B >Table of Contents</B ></DT ><DT >1. <A HREF="intro.html" >Introduction</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >1.1. <A HREF="intro.html#COPYRIGHT" >Copyright Information</A ></DT ><DT >1.2. <A HREF="intro.html#DISCLAIMER" >Disclaimer</A ></DT ><DT >1.3. <A HREF="intro.html#NEWVERSIONS" >New Versions</A ></DT ><DT >1.4. <A HREF="intro.html#CREDITS" >Credits</A ></DT ><DT >1.5. <A HREF="intro.html#FEEDBACK" >Feedback</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >2. <A HREF="services.html" >What is needed</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >2.1. <A HREF="services.html#NETFILTER" >Netfilter</A ></DT ><DT >2.2. <A HREF="services.html#DYNAMICNETFILTERRULES" >Software for dynamic Netfilter rules.</A ></DT ><DT >2.3. <A HREF="services.html#DHCPD" >DHCP Server</A ></DT ><DT >2.4. <A HREF="services.html#AUTHENTICATION" >Authentication mechanism</A ></DT ><DT >2.5. <A HREF="services.html#DNSSERVER" >DNS Server</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >3. <A HREF="setup.html" >Setting up the Gateway Services</A ></DT ><DD ><DL ><DT >3.1. <A HREF="setup.html#NETFILTERSETUP" >Netfilter Setup</A ></DT ><DT >3.2. <A HREF="setup.html#DYNAMICNETFILTER" >Dynamic Netfilter rules.</A ></DT ><DT >3.3. <A HREF="setup.html#DHCPDSETUP" >DHCP Server Setup</A ></DT ><DT >3.4. <A HREF="setup.html#AUTHENTICATIONSETUP" >Authentication Method Setup</A ></DT ><DT >3.5. <A HREF="setup.html#DNSSETUP" >DNS Setup</A ></DT ></DL ></DD ><DT >4. <A HREF="usage.html" >Using the authentication gateway</A ></DT ><DT >5. <A HREF="remarks.html" >Concluding Remarks</A ></DT ><DT >6. <A HREF="resource.html" >Additional Resources</A ></DT ><DT >7. <A HREF="faq.html" >Questions and Answers</A ></DT ></DL ></DIV ></DIV ><DIV CLASS="NAVFOOTER" ><HR ALIGN="LEFT" WIDTH="100%"><TABLE SUMMARY="Footer navigation table" WIDTH="100%" BORDER="0" CELLPADDING="0" CELLSPACING="0" ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" ><A HREF="intro.html" ACCESSKEY="N" >Next</A ></TD ></TR ><TR ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="left" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="34%" ALIGN="center" VALIGN="top" > </TD ><TD WIDTH="33%" ALIGN="right" VALIGN="top" >Introduction</TD ></TR ></TABLE ></DIV ></BODY ></HTML >