Re: [Packetfence-users] URL redirection not taking place

[Morris, A. <am...@ca...>]

Ah, I see, I actually had that set to the management interface of the packetfence server.  I need to try and figure out the routing so that I can allow access to one IP from several different production vlans, but that sounds perfectly feasible.

Cheers,
Andi

-----Original Message-----
From: Olivier Bilodeau [mailto:obi...@in...]
Sent: 30 January 2012 15:13
To: pac...@li...
Subject: Re: [Packetfence-users] URL redirection not taking place

>
>> but that is because I don't actually have internet access on the dev network, but that is something I'm working on.
> If your Internet is not working, the automatic redirection won't work.
> By default, we are pulling a 1px image from our website.  If it fails,
> you have no internet, if it works, it means the internet is working
> and we redirect the user.
>

Actually this is controllable by a pf.conf parameter:

> [captive_portal]
> # captive_portal.network_detection_ip
> #
> # This IP is used as the webserver who hosts the
> common/network-access-detection.gif which is used to detect if network # access was enabled.
> # It cannot be a domain name since it is used in registration or quarantine where DNS is blackholed.
> # It is recommended that you allow your users to reach your packetfence server and put your LAN's PacketFence IP.
> # By default we will make this reach PacketFence's website as an easy solution.
> #
> network_detection_ip = 67.205.85.245

In your case you can put PacketFence's IP on the 'production' network and make sure that the http://<ip>/common/network-access-detection.gif
is reachable from there. You might need to adjust firewall settings (conf/iptables.conf).

This is covered in more details under "Configuration" -> "Captive Portal" in the Admin guide.
--
Olivier Bilodeau
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(www.packetfence.org)

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