Re: Locking down public wireless access

[David Lang <david.lang () digitalinsight com>]

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005, Dale W. Carder wrote:

> - Roll out a "captive portal" style network admission box.  The captive 
> portal also strongly encourages the use of VPN (and allows them to get the 
> client before allowed through) when on the wireless network, but acts as a 
> fallback mechanism for those without: the vpn client, clue, admin on their 
> machines, or who are otherwise guests.
>
> There's several free captive portal thingys out there like NoCatAuth, 
> PacketFence, and then the vendors like Perfigo (now vendor C), BlueSocket, 
> and BSi.  We found that they all had limitations one way or another, so 
> choose your poison carefully!

Dale, any chance of getting you to list the limitations that you ran into 
to save the rest of us some research time? :-)

David Lang

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