Hello Henning,

Not quite sure if its possible, but you might be faster to just
configure a proxy passtrough with the httpd.portal(apache) daemon.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_proxy.html the reverseproxypass
seems (to me) to be what you are looking for.

Bebbet



On 19-2-2016 20:49, Henning Els wrote:
>  
> 
> I’m creating a PoC whereby I want to use PacketFence as an inline NAC. 
> What makes this deployment special is that I have to use an external
> captive portal. 
> 
>  
> 
> I believe the following steps are needed and wanted to run it by the
> forum to see if I’m lost in crazy town.
> 
>  
> 
> ·        Configure PF to always allow traffic from my LAN to the captive
> portal address (passthrough)
> 
> ·        Configure PF DHCP to return a DNS of PacketFence server
> 
> ·        Configure pfdns to resolve all domain name requests to the IP
> address of the external captive portal
> 
> o   This would only have to be true for non-existent or ‘unregistered’
> devices.. so I guess I’m not sure how to configure this
> 
> ·        Users uses the external captive portal to log in, using its own
> user database
> 
> ·        Upon successful login, the external captive portal calls the
> PacketFence API functions to register the Node (api.pm)
> 
> ·        As a result PacketFence updates its iptables to allow access
> for the device
> 
>  
> 
> Any thoughts on this?  Major stumbling blocks, functionality that I
> would lose?  Is it a gross misuse, or perhaps already supported?
> 
>  
> 
> On the surface it seems reasonable: use PacketFence as the NAC engine
> with my own captive portal.
> 
>  
> 
> Thank you much,
> 
> Henning
> 
> 
> 
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