Greetings, I don't think these questions are new, but I can't seem to find anything via Google, so my apologies if you've seen these before.
We have a fairly large MPLS based network with a significant number of edge VLANs. I have 802.1x and MAB working already, so my next step is captive portal. First, does the captive portal have to run on the packetfence box, or can it run on a separate system? Presumably there would need to be communication between the captive portal and packetfence. Next, how do I redirect users to the captive portal? I can see two options here. First, I can configure the captive portal to have the gateway address for every registration vlan (100+). This seems somewhat excessive and means I have to update the server every time we add/remove a registration VLAN. This doesn't happen often, but it is an extra step. The alternative, I think, is to use a route-map. I can use "set-next-hop" and push all traffic on the registration VLANs to the captive portal. This is pretty straighforward, I think, and I've had this working for other captive portal systems. It's also a standard config I can put on all registration VLANs and will not require server changes to implement. I will, eventually, be using the captive portal for AUP/TOS acceptance as well, but I don't think that changes any of the above. Any insight into this would be helpful. And if there are documents describing this in more detail, I would appreciate a pointer to them. The only formal documentation I've seen is the admin guide which isn't much help with this. Thanks, -- Jason Frisvold xenoph...@godshell.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Learn Graph Databases - Download FREE O'Reilly Book "Graph Databases" is the definitive new guide to graph databases and their applications. This 200-page book is written by three acclaimed leaders in the field. The early access version is available now. Download your free book today! http://p.sf.net/sfu/neotech_d2d_may _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list PacketFence-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
