Re: Wireless captive portal

[Michael Grinnell <grinnell () AMERICAN EDU>]

Jeff,

I'm personally a fan of pfSense (http://www.pfsense.org) but there are dozens of F/OSS solutions out there.

Regards,

Michael Grinnell
Senior Information Security Engineer
The American University

On Aug 30, 2010, at 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