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Kalido's avatar
Kalido
Jan 02, 2020

Public Wifi with Captive portal redirect?

Hi Guys,   I was wondering if its possible to have the following setup?   Customer connects to wifi > traffic is directed to the load balancer where it will redirect the customer to a externa...
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Niels_van_Sluis's avatar
Niels_van_Sluis
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Jan 02, 2020

When using APM, you'll probably don't need any iRules. See below an example with SWG:

 

https://clouddocs.f5.com/training/community/iam/html/class3/module6/module6.html

 

I think you should be able to do something with APM and an external captive portal, by using SAML. In this scenario the captive portal will be configured as the IDP.

 

And if you're handy with iRules, I guess you could come up with a working setup also. Probably you'll have to do something with cookies and/or tables.

Kalido's avatar
Kalido
Jan 02, 2020

Hi Niels,

 

Thank you for your input, so just to confirm this would need APM.

 

This wouldn't work with just a LTM module?