Installation of Captive portal

[giacomo (Giacomo Sanchietti)]

@gerald_FS

I just want to run a simple radius service to connect my WLAN accesses to the user management.

In this case Icaro is not what you’re looking for
And we do not have plan to include such feature, but as always we will try to help anyone who want to join in.

@gerald_FS

There is sometimes a simple Howto / Wiki description that you as a normal user of home wants to play something understands!

@robb

But no explanation what is a DO token and where to find this token. Neither how the Vagrant file (is supposed to) looks like and where to place the token info in the Vagrant file. Besides that, there are supposed to be other providers, but no explanation what providers or how to configure them. And for many users, a self hosted option (for instance on proxmox or other hypervisor) would be preferrable, but nothing that mentions this.

I can understand your feelings but the documentation is intended for infrastructure engineers. Don’t get me wrong, but if you don’t know what a Vagrant provider or a Digital Ocean token is, you probably shouldn’t install an Icaro instance

@robb

here is a need to adjust the docs to make them more inclusive

I agree, and any PR is very welcome.

@robb

maybe you can point to more detailed info or explain here?

You can find and excellent Ansible recipe from @Amygos right here along with a README.

@danb35

Perhaps we can ask, more fundamentally, why our captive portal solution requires a VPS somewhere else. That seems at first glance to be unnecessarily complicated.

Because Icaro can’t simply be hosted on NS installation since requires extra tools and it doesn’t fit on the NethServer structure. Icaro has been designed to have horizontal scalability and such thing can be obtained with the immutable infrastructure approach.

So maybe you’re wondering: why bother publishing the code?
Because we think it’s important that the code is open of review to anyone.
We (as Nethesis) are providing a managed Icaro installation which is currently handling thousands of users.

If you still have doubts, please shot!