Somewhat OT: Captive portal on acess points instead complex supplicant at level end user?

[A.L.M.Buxey at lboro.ac.uk]

hi,

why go backwards when you have the right wireless
technology in place?  you need to look at the windows
client end of things.  I'd suggest looking at automating
the setup..the best thing would be to have another
wireless SSID (eg 'setup for XYZ' - where XYZ is your current
SSID) - and have that as an open wifi that can only (ONLY!)
access one single IP on which lives a web server with auto
setup tools - eg .NET or VBS for MS windows, XML for MAC
and even a setup file for iPhone/iPod touch etc.  (this
would have to be a webredirect so as soon as they
associate, any DNS or port 80/8080/3128 etc get sent to the
index page.) - another web delivery option is to prepackage
eg open1x (open1x.sf.net) or SecureW2 (another supplicant)
and get them to use that....

as you did note, the problem is with the client setup..
thats the current difficulty with 802.1X.

alan