Matt,
There are a number of portal solutions available. Commercial products
Nomadix and IP3 are big in the hospitality space. Some of the WLAN
switch vendors include captive portal capabilities in their products.
At Emory, we use the built-in captive portal in our Aruba Networks WLAN
switch for guest access authentication. We could authenticate users as
well because the CP can authenticate to RADIUS or AD/LDAP.
There are some open source captive portal projects, but the original
(AFAIK) is NoCat Auth (http://nocat.net/). Read the sidebar on their
web page describing how they derived the name.
I know there is captive portal capability in the M0n0Wall project
(http://m0n0.ch/wall/) as well, but that is probably not what you are
looking for - cool project, though...
>>-> Stan Brooks - CWNA/CWSP
Emory University
Network Communications Division
404.727.0226
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AIM: WLANstan Yahoo!: WLANstan MSN: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
-------- Original Message --------
From: Matt Ashfield
Date: 5/9/2006 12:42 PM
Hi All
I'm not sure if this is a wireless specific question, because I suppose you
could use a portal for all network authentication, not just wireless.
Anyways, we are investigating this possibility and I'm wondering if anyone
out there is using a portal as a means of authenticating users?
If so, what portal software are you using? Is there a reliable open-source
package available? Does it handle guest access?
Any replies are greatly appreciated.
Cheers
Matt
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group
discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
**********
Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group
discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
