Lightspeed Relay - Captive Portal

[pugrick_31]

Is anyone here using the Captive Portal on Lightspeed's Relay system?

 

We have purchased licences to use Lightspeed Relay after losing Rocket with our ISP, SchoolsBroadband. However, after looking around it appears you need to have the onsite Rocket appliance to allow you to use the Captive Portal, but we have only purchased the Cloud based Relay system.

 

Can anyone advise if we can do it and how with just the Cloud version or do we need to get the onsite Rocket appliance to allow us to use it. Or is there something similar we can use built into Relay, otherwise wireless devices like tablets and smartphones get an unfiltered internet connection.

 

Thanks in advance.

[GameOfGPOs]

Ask them to enable Relay Rocket on your relay instance. We have it running with 3 VMs hosted in a cluster as our transparent base filter to catch anything that doesn’t have an agent. We then have one setup to serve the captive portal. You will need a wildcard SSL certificate for them so you don’t get a certificate warning.

 

Must be said - the transparent setup we have will filter at a student level (or whatever level you pick based on your relay structure) but when something is blocked it will give the user the option to sign in to unblock if appropriate to that user.