I am a student brainstorming how to configure a second fail-over WAN link over my college's WiFi connection. There is a classroom building across the street and I get a good WiFi connection from my living room.
Right now I have pfsense running on an ALIX box over COMCAST cable Internet. I would have to buy a miniPCI WiFi card for this second link. Just wanted to ask you guys if this is possible prior to sinking my limited supply of funds. I think a catch would be that the college has a captive portal on their WiFi. It redirects to an intranet page requiring credentials prior to allowing traffic out to the Internet. Has anyone ever set up an alternate WAN link like this before? I assume a cron script I could run on my linux box could keep the captive portal from closing? I have also been experimenting with Zabbix on my internal network... perhaps I could configure its web monitoring functionality to keep the captive portal open? Thanks for any advice in advance, John --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
