Hi Owen,

> The overall goal here is to be able to bounce users (both wired and 
> wireless) from one vlan to another based on policy (snort) AND to 
> force the client to "Agree to the TOS" on initial connection.
Can you enlight me on the policy part? I am not sure to understand what 
you mean.  If you are talking about a kind of AUP, this is entirely 
managed by the captive portal, SNORT has nothing to do about it.  SNORT 
is only useful if you want to isolate people that are doing bad things.
>  Packet Fence seems to deliver just that, except for the fact that the 
> use of a radius server would suggest users would have to authenticate 
> against our account management backend (AD or LDAP). We do not want to 
> force users to have accounts to use this network.
> Is there a pattern that will get me what I want without binding to 
> LDAP or AD?
There is a technology called by many vendors MAC Filtering.  On newer 
devices, you can use this feature to authenticate a mac address to the 
RADIUS server without using AD or LDAP usernames.  However, this is NOT 
possible to do if you want to use PEAP or EAP-TLS/TTLS style 
authentication (WPA2 Enterprise), you can only use it with Open SSID, 
WEP, WPA personal (PSK) and WPA2 Personal (PSK).  How mac filtering 
works is very simple, it sends to RADIUS the mac address of the device 
as the username.  We then have a perl module hooked in RADIUS to talk 
with PacketFence.  That module will ask PF to check the status of the 
node (mac address we receives) in its database, and will return to the 
AP the right RADIUS attributes with the proper VLAN id.
> Do I even need to integrate radius?
Yes.  Otherwise, you won't be able to return the proper VLAN for your 
wireless nodes.

I hope it helps.

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