Hi all,
My school's IT is looking for a replacement for the web-based portal on PacketFence. We would like to use WPA2 Enterprise, but we need the ability to determine device type and connect a MAC address to the user's account to track their activity throughout the building.
They are currently using Extreme's wireless solution with a PacketFence portal and a Fortinet firewall to (a) monitor traffic of students, (b) isolate students devices on the network and (c) provide authenticated access using a web portal.
Is there any better option? PacketFence has gone down 8 times in the last 4 months, requiring large amounts of troubleshooting to find the issue and fix it.
Thanks!
Edit: The goal of them using PacketFence as a portal solution is to block mobile devices from getting on to the Wi-Fi at all... the school has a policy against phones and they quarantine mobile devices with it. They don't want to use the portal anymore, but WPA2 Enterprise doesn't appear to have fingerprinting tech like that.
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