Christ Schlacta wrote:
I know i'll be developing a custom captive portal to run, what I need to know is how a) freeradius needs to interact with the portal software
The captive portal has a web login page, which ends up sending RADIUS requests.
(can freeradius run scripts as hooks? or similar?
I have no idea what you mean by that question.
, or does freeradius need to use some complex configuration to make updates to the backend (probably sql or ldap),
Why would FreeRADIUS need to update a backend? And why would you think it's complex??
and b) what does hostapd need to allow users with failed authentication to connect, but to a different vlan? is that even possible.
See the hostpd documentation for how to do this (if possible)
in the grand scheme of things, captivating clients on any given vlan will be a very simple task.
Yes. And this isn't a RADIUS issue. Go find a captive portal, and configure that. That documentation will tell you what it needs from a RADIUS server. Alan DeKok.