Re: Wireless captive portal

[Vincent Stoffer <vince () REED EDU>]

Hi Jeff,

We don't use it ourselves (we have a commercial solution) but I know
several of our colleagues that have been happy with PacketFence as yet
another option:

www.packetfence.org

Vince


* Jeff Holden <JHolden () MTSAC EDU> [100830 14:22]:
> 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

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