[NoCat] NoCat in EWRT and DD-WRT

[Wayne Wynn]

Looking for help getting NoCatSplash working in a WRT54GL router. Have 
flashed WRT54GL with DD-WRT and EWRT.  Want no authentication, just 
splash.html followed by home.html. Have been trying sample splash.html 
files and have modified them some.

Tried various combinations in NoCat in both packages.E.g., (from EWRT):

    * Splash Page default of //jffs/nocat, or blank, or remote splash url
    * Remote Splash entered
    * Forced Redirect is enabled
    * Home Page URL entered
    * External Mgt Hosts blank or entered.
    * Allow non-local DNS enabled and disabled.
    * Include and Exclude Ports alwasy blank
    * Allowed web hosts blank or entered (e.g., "shaw.ca
      members.sahw.ca" without the quotes)
    * MAC WhileList blank
    * Disable NAT is disabled.

Depending on the combination of NoCatSplash entries, when wireless 
client with blank home page tries to go www.google.com either they get 
through or the URL becomes

    http://192.168.1.1:5280/?redirect=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com%2F

and the status bar shows Done. Nothing else happens. When this occurs, I 
infer that NoCatSplash is at least active and trying to work, but have 
not been able to get it to do more.

Have tried to manage the router via WinSCP, telnet and ftp. At one point 
WinSCP got through when DD-WRT was installed and jffs2 was enabled. 
Otherwise the response is "connection refused", "read only file system" 
or something similar. Have not tried to SSH from a Linux box. Hoping I 
don't have to.

Hope this post is not too long, but contains enough info for a helpful 
response. Is NoCat a good product for I want to do? If so, can I 
implement simply by completing the paramters in the NoCatsplash page in 
EWRT or do I need to use SSH or recompile? Help, direction, please.

TIA
Wayne Wynn
Burnaby, BC