Re: Wireless captive portal

["Reynolds, Walter" <waltr () UMICH EDU>]

We are also using Captivator-gw but a slightly modified version that is hosted on google code.

http://code.google.com/p/captivator/


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Walter Reynolds
Principal Systems Security Development Engineer
ITS Communications Systems and Data Centers 
University of Michigan
(734) 615-9438


> -----Original Message-----
> From: The EDUCAUSE Security Constituent Group Listserv
> [mailto:SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU] On Behalf Of Shane Godmere
> Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 5:45 PM
> To: SECURITY () LISTSERV EDUCAUSE EDU
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Wireless captive portal
>
> On 8/30/2010 5:21 PM, Jeff Holden wrote:
> > What free or cheap captive portal software are you guys using for
> > authenticating students on your wireless networks?  We are currently are
> > using a moded version of wifidog that auths to our AD server.  It works
> > fairly well until over 100 users hit it.  We now have over 400 users
> > hitting it at any given time and it crawls.  WIFI dog looks like a dead
> > project so I need to move on.  We don't need the fine grain statics wifidog
> > offers, just something nice and simple to give a splash page, and ties into
> > AD for authentication.
> >
> > Jeff Holden, CISSP, RHCE
> > Manager, Network&  Data Security
> > Mt. San Antonio College
>
> We are currently using an older in-house solution for our main captive
> portal and are considering moving to a vendor-based option that ties to
> some of our others systems.
>
>
> We had used NoCat several years ago, but found it didn't suit some of
> our needs.  http://nocat.net/   We have more recently started running
> Captivator-gw for a couple subnets --with good results.
> http://net.doit.wisc.edu/~dwcarder/captivator/   NoCat was a 'router'
> and Captivator is a 'switch' before a router.  There are always a number
> of FoSS products out there and finding what is right for your needs will
> determine which product is best.
>
> --
> Shane Allan Godmere
> Senior Telecommunications Engineer II
> Michigan Technological University
> 1400 Townsend Dr.  EERC-B31
> Houghton, MI 49931