so if I hosted PacketFence on a public machine on the internet (accessible
through a public IP), it would work without VPN?
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On Wed, Feb 1, 2017 at 3:42 PM, Fabrice Durand <[email protected]> wrote:
> It depends of your setup but you need to be able to reach PacketFence mgmt
> ip from the AP mgmt ip.
>
>
> Le 2017-02-01 à 03:08, Christopher Krah a écrit :
>
> Thanks for the quick reply, Fabrice.
> I'm a bit in the dark about how this will work. Do we need to setup a VPN
> connection between the different sites and the PacketFence machine?
>
> On Sun, Jan 22, 2017 at 1:41 AM, Durand fabrice < <[email protected]>
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello Christopher,
>>
>> yes this is exactly what PacketFence can do for you.
>>
>> Follow the documentation there : https://github.com/inverse-inc
>> /packetfence/blob/devel/docs/PacketFence_Network_Devices_
>> Configuration_Guide.asciidoc#mojo-networks
>>
>> And if you want to do external captive portal you will have to patch
>> PacketFence (https://github.com/inverse-inc/packetfence/compare/feature/
>> mojo_externalportal?expand=1)
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Fabrice
>>
>>
>>
>> Le 2017-01-21 à 03:34, Christopher Krah a écrit :
>>
>> Hi there,
>>
>>
>>
>> *Very short intro about myself*
>>
>> My name is Christopher. I study computer science and I am a system
>> administrator.
>>
>>
>>
>> *My situation*
>>
>> We are planning to offer customer WiFi in our stores. For that we are
>> planning to use the following components in each (geographically
>> independent) location:
>>
>> 1. Internet connection: Dedicated internet connection just for the
>> customer WiFi.
>>
>> 2. Modem/router: AVM FritzBox 7490 as a combined modem/router. For
>> those of you not familiar with the FritzBox series: It is a home/SMB router
>> which is only available in German speaking countries.
>>
>> 3. APs: APs from Mojo networks We see the main advantage in the neat
>> Cloud Manager which Mojo offers. This enables us to easily manage all APs
>> at once.
>>
>>
>>
>> *Can we use PacketFence?*
>>
>> We want our customers to register if they want to use the WiFi. But we
>> only want them to register once: If they registered in store A and then go
>> to store B, they should have WiFi in store B without registering again. We
>> are wondering if we can use PacketFence for this? We were thinking
>> something along the lines of:
>>
>> - In the Mojo cloud manager one can specify an external captive
>> portal as well as an external Radius server.
>>
>> - We want to host PacketFence on a machine somewhere in the cloud,
>> e.g. AWS. So that we have a public IP address for that machine.
>>
>> - This PacketFence machine would then provide the registration and
>> AAA functionalities.
>>
>>
>>
>> On this we would very much appreciate your input. Is it possible to do
>> this with PacketFence? Could you give us a hint on how to start?
>>
>>
>>
>> Best regards
>>
>> Christopher
>>
>>
>>
>>
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