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authentication AND transparent mode not possible, workaround?

Hi,

this is our situation:

We would like to offer our business partners a free and wireless internet access. As a WEP/WPA configuration would be too difficult to handle for them, we cannot use any wlan authentication.

So we have to offer an open wlan access.

To not open our internet access to everyone in the wlan access area, my idea was to configure a http proxy (we have an Astaro Security Gateway 220) with authentication. It seems that it is not possible to have both options at the same time: authentication and transparent mode.

Because I do not want to bother our business partnes to configure a proxy configuration, the tranparent mode would be PERFECT.

Any idea how to solve this problem??

Thanks in advance.

Sven

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0 Scott_Klassen over 19 years ago

I looked for the same thing a few months ago. The upshot is that it is not currently possible. You can either have anonymous/transparent or authenticated/proxy, not both. I was told then that this ability was planned for V7 by technical support. This will most likely be done by setting the proxy to be able to work over port 80, which it cannot currently do. Whether it actually materializes remains to be seen, but at least your not alone.

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0 sinus over 19 years ago in reply to Scott_Klassen

I looked for the same thing a few months ago. The upshot is that it is not currently possible. You can either have anonymous/transparent or authenticated/proxy, not both. I was told then that this ability was planned for V7 by technical support. This will most likely be done by setting the proxy to be able to work over port 80, which it cannot currently do. Whether it actually materializes remains to be seen, but at least your not alone.

Did they tell you, when V7 will be released?
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0 sinus over 19 years ago in reply to sinus

@CcAgan: Thanks for your suggestion, I will have a look on it!

Maybe there is another solution for that problem: Are there access point available which support a username/password authentication?

Regards, Sven
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0 CcAgan over 19 years ago in reply to sinus

There are products like BlueSocket (http://www.bluesocket.com/). But thats quite an investment to provide a courtesy service.
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0 KKnecht over 19 years ago in reply to sinus

In Germany for example LANCOM (www.lancom.de) offers standard WLAN access points with an additional feature (extra fee) to turn it in a HotSpot mode.

But i think it would be cheaper to create a small letter, containing screenshots about how to insert a proxy in IE/Firefox/Opera etc.
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0 sinus over 19 years ago in reply to KKnecht

Hi,

I have nothing found on the LANCOM website regarding user authentication.

Can you send me a link?

Regards, Sven
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0 KKnecht over 19 years ago in reply to sinus

Here are the links:

Options overview: http://www.lancom-systems.de/b-Optionen-b.36.0.html
Public spot: http://www.lancom-systems.de/LANCOM_Public_Spot.348.0.html

Means, wireless lan can be unencrypted but users must login to a start page to gain full access to internet. This way you don't need proxy config, but it's up to you who can surf.

Important: I am using Lancom stuff for years now with best experiences. But i haven't tested THIS feature yet. I excpect it working very well, but please don't bother me if having problems [:D]
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0 sinus over 19 years ago in reply to KKnecht

Here are the links:
Public spot: http://www.lancom-systems.de/LANCOM_Public_Spot.348.0.html

Do you know how much this option costs?

Regards, Sven
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0 sinus over 19 years ago in reply to KKnecht

Here are the links:
Public spot: http://www.lancom-systems.de/LANCOM_Public_Spot.348.0.html

Do you know how much this option costs?

Regards, Sven
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