Captivator-Gw 1.01 review

Captivator-Gw is a "captive portal" style network authorization system. Here are some key features of "Captivator Gw": · "Captive

License: Artistic License File size: 50K Developer: Dale W. Carder

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Captivator-Gw is a "captive portal" style network authorization system.

Here are some key features of "Captivator Gw":
"Captive Portal" or "Walled Garden" style network authorization for ipv4
Works at Layer 2! - transparent bridging & stateful firewalling for ipv4
"Bump in the wire" - No need to run routing protocols on the box
Supports various protocols to flow through unmolested like IGMP, multicast, ...
Supports multiple bridges made up of vlans coming in as 802.1q trunks
Can stand alone, or can work with a centralized "head end"
Information stored in SQL for easy custom report generation
Radius Authentication and Accounting
Tunable syslog reporting, log as much or as little as you want
Templated and fully customizable web pages
With the right STP setup, can do stateless active-passive redundancy
A way to deal with guest users or clients otherwise lacking 802.1x supplicants
Free. Captivator-gw is distributed and licenced under the terms of the "Artistic License".