On Sun, May 23, 2010 at 11:34 AM, John Busch <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
Yes, that will work fine. As for how to keep the connection through the portal up, that's hard to say. Depends on how it's configured. Worst case, you manually log into it as needed. If it keeps active connections up indefinitely, send a constant ping or something through it. If it has a hard cutoff, script curl or something to log into it periodically as needed. There are way too many different ways to operate a captive portal to give you a definitive answer, you'll have to experiment. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] Commercial support available - https://portal.pfsense.org
