Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-10 Thread Christopher Cowart
Olivier Nicole wrote: I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). We are using a combination of squid+ipfw. Although we are NATing the users, that really just introduces needless complexity that could be

Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-03 Thread Christopher Cowart
Olivier Nicole wrote: I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). [...] Is there any solution that exists? I looked at pfSense, but captive portal does not work on bridged interfaces; it's one or the other.

Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-03 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi Chris, I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). We are using a combination of squid+ipfw. Although we are NATing the users, that really just introduces needless complexity that could be avoided with

Re: Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-03 Thread Andrew
Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi Chris, I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). We are using a combination of squid+ipfw. Although we are NATing the users, that really just introduces needless complexity that could

Firewall with bridged interfaces and captive portal

2008-12-02 Thread Olivier Nicole
Hi, I need to implement a firewall with bridged interfaces that offers captive portal (authentication before opening the traffic). I need bridged intefaces because we are a Computer Science department and we sometime have traffic other than plain IP, need multicast, IPv6, etc, so bridged