At Biola University, the campus wireless network is protected by the Bluesocket authentication system. Basically all traffic is blocked until you visit the login page and enter your ID and password. (Heaven help you if you don’t know what the URL of the login page is…. It tries to redirect all traffic to that page, but it only works about half the time.)

This morning, I was sitting in my mind-numbingly dull Operations Research class, and I came up with a way to automatically log on to the system every time your network is brought up. (If you think that sounds boring, try not to think about what the class is like when you do pay attention.)

Here it is. It works on Macs and Linux.

Maybe it’ll be useful to someone. Under Linux, you install it by adding a line to your /etc/network/interfaces file. Under Mac OS X, well, we’ll just see if André figures that one out. If it’s useful to other people I might put an installer together so you don’t have to mess with things manually.