Configuring Captive Portal Policies; Configuring A Captive Portal Policy - Motorola WiNG 5.5 Reference Manual

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9.1 Configuring Captive Portal Policies

Services Configuration
A captive portal is an access policy that provides temporary and restrictive access to the access point managed wireless
network.
A captive portal policy provides secure authenticated access using a standard Web browser. Captive portals provide
authenticated access by capturing and re-directing a wireless user's Web browser session to a captive portal login page where
the user must enter valid credentials to access the wireless network. Once logged into the captive portal, additional Terms and
Conditions, Welcome and Fail pages provide the administrator with a number of options on screen flow and appearance.
Captive portal authentication is used primarily for guest or visitor access to the network, but is increasingly used to provide
authenticated access to private network resources when 802.1X EAP is not a viable option. Captive portal authentication does
not provide end-user data encryption, but it can be used with static WEP, WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK encryption.
Each supported access point model can support up to 32 captive portal policies, with the exception of AP6511 and AP6521
models, which can only support 16 captive portal policies.

9.1.1 Configuring a Captive Portal Policy

Configuring Captive Portal Policies
To configure a captive portal policy:
1. Select Configuration
2. Select Services.
The upper, left-hand, side of the user interface displays an area where Captive Portal, DNS Whitelist and DHCP Server
Policy configuration options can be selected.
3. Select Captive
The Captive Portal
created, existing policies can be modified or existing policies deleted.
tab from the Web user interface.
Portals.
screen displays the configurations of existing policies. New captive portal access policies can be