Thanks for the direction Fabrice - I'll setup my lab here for testing and
get back if I have any questions to implement for our company.

Cory White
Xponet
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On Wed, Nov 18, 2015 at 6:44 PM, Durand fabrice <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hello Cory,
>
> what you describe is WLC web authentication.
>
> It mean that the device stay on the same layer 2 network and is redirected
> to the captive portal if the device is unreg.
>
> For the flow policy you can use the wlc qos for that.
>
>
> http://www.packetfence.org/downloads/PacketFence/doc/PacketFence_Network_Devices_Configuration_Guide-5.4.0.pdf
> page 86.
>
> Regards
> Fabrice
>
>
>
> Le 2015-11-18 12:49, Cory White a écrit :
>
> Hello (new to the forum) -
>
> I've been tasked with a captive portal replacement for our companies
> currently paid solution - sure we all know the 'green monster' with an 'X'.
>
> I've read through deployment and admin guides but our needs require a very
> vanilla offering to our customers - hospitality industry. Although a base
> solution of deploying PF as in-line will work we are looking for a more
> complete solution (not a fan of the bridged network similarity of our
> current solution). It seems we need a hybrid of the 2 options from web
> configurator. 99% of traffic will be wireless based, one offs for wired
> based on network printers and the like. We are a 100% Cisco house aside
> from our linux monitoring servers - i.e. Routers, WLC, switches, APs,
> etc....
>
> Our overview of needs:
> 1. Captive Portal - user created login portal & portal with auto redirect
> (no login needed but url redirect required for 'sponsored wifi')
> 2. Assign portals based on access port (vlan) or Vlan assigned SSID (WLC)
> - DHCP assigned by our server, user is 'caught' by PF to authenticate and
> once registered is allowed to pass to the internet.
>
> Is PF capable:
> 1. Most clients will not have 802.1x logins but PF created logins - we do
> not need PF to manage switches or APs - unless its required to accomplish
> our goals. This is not preferred due to the size of our network hardware
> infrastructure and client footprint.
> 2. Assigning captive portals based on vlan of client (or even SSID) - so
> we can trunk to PF (allow portal vlans) and it tags traffic to correct
> captive portal. Is this the filter feature on portal configuration, if not
> how/possible?
> 3. Can it create micro-flow policy on user traffic, I see iptables/tc
> being used for user traffic shapping (in-line) but it is applied as a whole
> (on user group) not per user IP:MAC based on my testing. Not a huge
> obstacle as if we can use our VLANs structure micro-flow is applied through
> our layer 3 catalyst.
>
> *one note is we use converged access WLC - not as mature as WLC guide to
> Airespace. Though its radius/AAA configuration is similar not entirely sure
> it deploys the same.
>
> Thanks in advance and apologies if this is redundant thread anywhere -
> just trying to see if PF is worth the investment or is another solution
> needed.
>
> ​ -​
> Cory
>
>
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