2015-08-10 - Re: [GRASE-Hotspot] Connection through proxy

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From: Brett Groves <gr***s@melba.vic.edu.au>
Message Hash: 7e19db72076a7567fd4af8f2fed6785af36380f060cd547d7fa52cafbaf0b7ee
Message ID: <CAJJcDYx4TY-98mBxA7vJdqc95174ZPNotE0Cofzzeesp8dZWiw@mail.gmail.com>
Reply To: <55C49B14.9070005@radez.hr>
UTC Datetime: 2015-08-10 20:05:43 UTC
Raw Date: Tue, 11 Aug 2015 13:05:43 +1000

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Hi Drazen,

The MDM just allows management of the iPads and sets up their connections.
To do this it needs and internet connection, you can see the problem for a
new student ie no internet so cant get internet connection.

Hence we set up the Grase kiosk so that students could download their
connection settings and certificates required to connect to our network. We
intended to have a walled garden just allowing access to download the
wireless configuration.

It works well but we have a proxy which requires authentication sitting
between the Grase hotspot and the internet which means students still can't
access the internet without adding proxy configurations settings which is
too complex and too prone to error for the younger ones in particular.

I need to know if there is some way to Grase to share the internet
connection after it has already passed through the proxy so that students
can connect directly without adding a proxy set up....does that make sense?

Thanks
Bret

*Brett Groves*
*eLearning Leader*





On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:48 PM, drazen <dr***a@radez.hr> wrote:

> Hi Brett,
> I never seen Meraki MDM in action, but I am quite sure that is excellent
> system and that you don't need Grase in that case. Theese two are similar
> product. You can't cascade them.
>
> Why you wish to add Grase in that system?
> rgds.
> Drazen
>
> On 08/05/2015 05:05 AM, Brett wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Have just set up 3.8 on Ubuntu 12.x (decided to try it this way first
> rather than install 14+). Works great however as a school we have an issue
> we need to solve. We are using it to allow students to connect to a Meraki
> based MDM and configure their own wireless. So certainly students can
> connect to the Grase Hotspot server and login but cannot access the wider
> internet as we are behind a proxy.
>
> Our schools proxy setup for general student use is an ISA box which
> requires authentication. We also have access to an external proxy provided
> by the isp (netspace) which requires special authorization (ie credentials
> which are manually entered and not for public release)
>
> I can get a student iPad without a problem to locate the landing page and
> login, however to proceed further students would have to go into the
> settings for the wireless network point, add an IP for the proxy and a port
> and then add in their network credentials to connect to the Meraki MDM and
> install certs and profiles. They would then need to disable this proxy
> setup and return to the http:/logout page to logout. You can see this
> would be a problematic procedure for students as a self service connection
> system.
>
> So my question is there anyway to connect the hotspot internet via our
> proxy so that it is transparent to students but credentials are stored on
> the server running Grase?(and not exposed to students)
>
>  I'd hoped that Grase might pick up system wide proxies set as an
> environment variable but it seems not so. Really keen for some help as we
> have come this far and the kiosk appears otherwise to do precisely what we
> need (thank you!!)
>
> TIA Brett
>
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