The short answer to your question is, "yes". However you need to understand, that is a conditional "yes". Conditional in the fact that PF is an open source package that can do ANYTHING so long as you know how to accomplish it.
So; if your question is, "Can I use PF to create a captive portal that I can use to relegate access to my wired/wireless network based on rules that I define?" The answer is, absolutely! That is the purpose for PF's existence. Exactly HOW you go about doing that depends entirely on your environment and your requirements and goals. Your next step would be to think about how you want to deploy PF in your environment. Do you want to use in-line enforcement (good for small deployments), or vlan enforcement (best for medium to stupidly large deployments)? Do you want to use 802.1x, or MAB? Etc. When you are positing questions to the list please remember to keep them as detailed and succinct as possible. This will help us be able to assist you faster. This list is mostly users helping users, and as such we all have our jobs to do. Keeping your questions detailed and specific will help us greatly. If we read a message that contains only a vague question most of the time it seems like it will take way too much of our time to answer it correctly. This is time most of our employers would like us to spend on the activities that they pay us for, not handing out free tech support on their dime. Please always feel free to ask questions, we welcome your input. And, as a general rule of etiquette, it is always appreciated to show you have at least attempted to solve the issue on your own. This will help us not try things you have already done as well as show that you are not to lazy to RTFM or use google. And lastly, always provide the appropriate logs that correspond to your issue. Inverse has done an excellent job putting very descriptive messages in the logs and 99.9% of the time the answer is there so long as you know how to interpret it. Good luck, and welcome to the PF community. Jake Sallee Godfather of Bandwidth System Engineer University of Mary Hardin-Baylor WWW.UMHB.EDU 900 College St. Belton, Texas 76513 Fone: 254-295-4658 Phax: 254-295-4221 ________________________________ From: Blason R [[email protected]] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2014 11:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PacketFence-users] Can I configure Guest Wi-fi using Packetfence? Well sorry for not being so descriptive. Well I have firewall with 3 legs i.e Internet,DMZ and User LAN and I need to provide guest wifi to the visitors.My guest wifi is on User lan and wondering if Packetfence can be used as a captive portal and provide access using that? On Mon, Jun 16, 2014 at 6:54 PM, Louis Munro <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: On 2014-06-15, at 14:46 , Blason R <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: > Hey Guys, > > Packetfence being a NAC wondering if anyone has deployed a guest wi-fi using > Packetfence or is it really possible to deploy such topology using > packetfence? Just about everyone has done it. You would need to be more specific about your requirements if you want more advice. Regards, -- Louis Munro [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> :: www.inverse.ca<http://www.inverse.ca> +1.514.447.4918 *125 :: +1 (866) 353-6153 Inverse inc. :: Leaders behind SOGo (www.sogo.nu<http://www.sogo.nu>) and PacketFence (www.packetfence.org<http://www.packetfence.org>) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ PacketFence-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/packetfence-users
