David Rodgers wrote:

> Excellent! 
> 
> The easy question next ... and maybe I am just unclear in reading. Will you be 
> able to use say a optional port for your captive portal and another port for 
> the lan? I guess I am curious wether you can assign the port the captive 
> portal functions on or whether it has to be the default lan port?

Yes, you can freely choose which interface (with the exception of WAN 
of course) you whish to run the captive portal on. However, currently 
it is only possible to run a portal on one interface (not that I know 
why anyone would want to run more than one captive portal on a single 
firewall?)

 From this question I assume you aren't currently running m0n0wall (or 
at least not the latest beta). I would suggest you grab the CD-ROM 
version of the beta and take a look at the captive portal 
configuration yourself (using the CD image, you can run m0n0wall on 
any PC with no risk of anything happening to the stuff on your 
harddisks, it will only use the CD and floppy drive!)


> I wasn't really kean on this at first but I think it could have some rather 
> exciting applications.

Yes, it rather does, doesn't it. I certainly don't have any need for 
it, but even so I find myself searching for an excuse to use this 
feature ;)


Regards,

Adam.