I have also been looking at Utangle as a replacement for Endian, due to lack of communication from the Endian team and the extremely slow release/development cycle.
Also despite the advertisement of a community/open source project Endian seem to be moving further and further away from these principles. With all that said, I still love the product and keeping hoping things will change. The optimist! From: Rafael Fonseca [mailto:rafael.m...@gmail.com] Sent: 04 May 2010 10:29 PM To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: [Efw-user] Captive Portal on Endian Community? Based on Endian's lack of response to sales enquiries, I'd recommend trying Untangle instead. I have switched one of my clients from Endian to Untangle to use their free Captive Portal and it's been very good. The daily/weekly/monthly reports are very comprehensive and the overall polish of the product makes Endian look a bit too simple. It does require a bit more hardware grunt to run than Endian, but you do get way nicer filters such as Protocol Control (for completely blocking P2P without actually blocking outbound legitimate traffic or closing ports), a free Captive Portal implementation and more flexible licensing. For example, to integrate with LDAP or Active Directory, you can buy the Directory Connector (a plugin) which is licensed on a number of users/year type of license, and it integrates the whole system to it: VPN logins, Captive Portal. It even does reporting by username. Since setup, I haven't had any issues with it. I'm considering switching other clients to it as well. If you're after Captive Portal, have a look at it. PS: The interface is a completely different concept, so it takes a little bit of time getting used to. Regards, -- Rafael Fonseca On 5 May 2010 02:43, Matthew W. Ross <mr...@ephrataschools.org<mailto:mr...@ephrataschools.org>> wrote: According to this page, comparing the various editions of Endian... http://www.endian.com/en/community/feature-comparison/ The answer to your question is no. The Captive Portal feature is listed under the HotSpot area. Which is really too bad, as I would love to use a captive portal/cookie system to authenticate users, instead of using an authenticating proxy. The proxy authentication method works, but in an environment where we don't want to have to configure every user who uses our network to authenticate, this method seems very viable. But, that's why there is a free/open version, and a payed for version. Can somebody on this list describe how Endian's captive portal work? Can it authenticate users for the content filter? Does it authenticate against an Active Directory? Any known pitfalls with a captive portal system? --Matt Ross Ephrata School District ----- Original Message ----- From: Alberto Ferrer [mailto:alber...@barrahome.org<mailto:alber...@barrahome.org>] To: efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net> Sent: Tue, 04 May 2010 04:49:04 -0700 Subject: [Efw-user] Captive Portal on Endian Community? > There is Captive Portal on Endian Community? > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > _______________________________________________ > Efw-user mailing list > Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Efw-user mailing list Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net<mailto:Efw-user@lists.sourceforge.net> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/efw-user
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