How to configure FreeRadius as Captive Portal
Hi All, I am a new person using freeRadius server. I have a wireless access point with WPA authentication option. It does not have any support for 802.1x or configuring Radius server.But i want to implement some central security using Radius server.Is it possible to configure the FreeRadius server in such a way so that i can setup an captive portal. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated. Thanks Raihan -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/How-to-configure-FreeRadius-as-Capti... Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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I am a new person using freeRadius server. I have a wireless access point with WPA authentication option. It does not have any support for 802.1x or configuring Radius server.But i want to implement some central security using Radius server.Is it possible to configure the FreeRadius server in such a way so that i can setup an captive portal. Any suggestion will be highly appreciated.
yes - but you say you want some central security - and security doesnt go with captive portal so suggest you change the AP to one that can do 802.1X alan
Hi Alan, Thanks for your advice. Is it possible to configure the DHCP module in freeRadius in such a way that at first the DHCP will gave ip address of from one subnet like 192.168.1.X and afterwards after authentication is done then DHCP will force to change the IP address to different IP subnet like 192.168.2.X. I am planing to write a small module in Java . Whn a device attached to Access Point. It will get IP from192.168.1.X and all the request from this ip range will go to the java program. It will get the user name and password from the user and then do the authentication with the Radius server. Afrer authentication is done then the DHCP server will change IP address of the that device. May be i am making it more complex. Thanks Raihan -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/How-to-configure-FreeRadius-as-Capti... Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
On 13/03/12 07:33, ulislam.raihan wrote:
192.168.2.X. I am planing to write a small module in Java . Whn a device attached to Access Point. It will get IP from192.168.1.X and all the request from this ip range will go to the java program. It will get the user name and password from the user and then do the authentication with the Radius server. Afrer authentication is done then the DHCP server will change IP address of the that device. Hi Raihan.
I suggest you look at something like Coova Chilli. It uses a Radius server to authenticate users, but does the captive portal. You can use any access point with it, and it'll run fine on the same machine as Freeradius. I don't suggest reinventing the wheel if you can avoid it. If you are totally new to radius/captive portals etc, I suggest checking out the Grase Hotspot project, all you need is a machine with 2 network cards, install a base debian or ubuntu distro, and then install the Grase Hotspot packages on top. It'll setup the Freeradius for you, with Coova Chilli and a nice admin interface. Tim Dislaimer: The Grase Hotspot is my project, there are other hotspot systems out there with Freeradius and Coova Chilli, but some are hard to setup.
Hi Tim Thanks for your advice. I will try with the Grase Hotspot. It seems very interesting Thanks Raihan -- View this message in context: http://freeradius.1045715.n5.nabble.com/How-to-configure-FreeRadius-as-Capti... Sent from the FreeRadius - User mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
Hello... I Have a question... Which captive portal is the best? I tried to configure in CentOS coovachilli and is very hard to install and configuring... Grase Hotspot is easier? El 13 de marzo de 2012 03:42, ulislam.raihan <raihan1780@gmail.com>escribió:
Hi Tim
Thanks for your advice. I will try with the Grase Hotspot. It seems very interesting
Thanks Raihan
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On 13/03/12 21:41, Fabricio Flores wrote:
Hello... I Have a question... Which captive portal is the best? I tried to configure in CentOS coovachilli and is very hard to install and configuring... Grase Hotspot is easier?
Grase Hotspot uses Coova Chilli internally, but does the work of setting everything up for you. It uses Debian/Ubuntu based distributions as it makes use of packaging features to do all the hard configuration work. The admin interface is (in my biased opinion) nice and easy to use. Tim
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