Nando’s…

Has anyone found a place in or around Seville where they serve something along the lines of good ol’ Nando’s?

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u/leftplayer — 1 day ago

Multiple captive portal designs on FortiGate

Working on a group of restaurants where a single Fortigate will be shared between 2 or 3 outlets. Each outlet has its own branding, so we need to set up an SSID/VLAN for each outlet and a captive portal for Guest Wi-Fi. It will be a simple portal with a single shared guest access code.

In other words:
- Bob's Fish & Chips Guest Wi-Fi -> VLAN 20 -> blue and yellow coloured captive portal

- Jerry's Caviar House Guest Wi-Fi -> VLAN 30 -> gold and silver coloured captive portal.

Ideally they would also use separate login codes for each, so Bob's login code would be "vinegar" and Jerry's login code would be "crackers".

Is there a way to create multiple captive portals each one with a different design on the same FG?

UPDATE: Claude figured it out...

config system global
set gui-replacement-message-groups enable
end

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u/leftplayer — 4 days ago

Is a VM controller still a thing?

I’m working on a large project with another vendor and one of the side jobs we’ll handle is installing something like 20x 8 port switches connected to an aggregation switch. Simple flat network, couple of VLANs and some DANTE tweaks.
Routing, firewall, DHCP and all that jazz will be handled by FortiGates and MikroTiks.

So how would you go about controlling these switches? Would you still go for a hardware controller like a UCK-G2, or would you just plonk a Linux VM and run UOS there? I’m leaning towards the latter, but I’m open to be talked out of it.

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u/leftplayer — 8 days ago

“Anybody there?” Tester

We deploy large public network WiFi. Most of the time the patch panel ports are unlabelled, so we have to do a port hunt, sequentially plugging in every patch panel port into the switch until one lights up.

Does anyone know of a device which will quickly tell us if there’s a device at the other end? Just a simple “yes, something is closing the circuit” vs “no, it’s just a dead cable” is enough, but it needs to be as fast as possible, ideally sub-1s

Doing it on the switch works, but it can take a good 5-7 seconds for the switch to detect Poe and bring up the port… an eternity when you have to do hundreds of them in a rack.

EDIT: **FOUND IT**
https://www.trendnet.com/products/poe-cable-tester/inline-poe-tester-TC-NTP1

It has a “amp” and “wattage” mode. Pair this with a 48v passive Poe injector like one of those “mini UPS” and we can instantly see when there’s a device at the other end pulling power.

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u/leftplayer — 23 days ago

Straight to Standby (Spain)

I live in the outskirts of a major city in the south of Spain. Got 1Gig symmetric fiber but it occasionally (rarely) goes down.

Since I work from home in tech and the home heavily relies on internet connectivity (lots of cloud based IOT stuff, no I can’t/won’t switch to local/yes I’m always using home assistant), I’ve been thinking of getting Starlink purely as a backup line.

When looking at the purchasing options, I only see a “rental” option starting st €35 for 100mbps. There doesn’t seem to be a way to buy outright the unit. It also says that if the service is cancelled I would have to return the unit, I’m not sure if this would also apply to switching to Standby.

Anyone in Spain (or EU) who just bought outright the unit and went straight to standby?

u/leftplayer — 29 days ago
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FortiAP with display

I saw this AP on a LinkedIn post, the FAP-231KD, with a built in display apparently to display ads and for face recognition. Does anyone know anything about this model? Google returned nothing.

u/leftplayer — 2 months ago