Motorola WiNG 5 System Reference Manual page 498

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5. Define the following
Captive Portal
Policy
Captive Portal
Server Mode
Hosting VLAN
Interface
Captive Portal
Server
Connection Mode
Simultaneous Users
6. Use the AAA Policy
used to validate user credentials and provide captive portal guest access to the network.
If no AAA policies exist, one must be created by selecting the
selected and modified by selected it from the drop-down menu and selecting the
creating a AAA policy that can be applied to a captive portal configuration, see
Settings for the captive portal policy:
If creating a new policy, assign a name representative of its access
permissions, location or intended wireless client user base. If editing an
existing captive portal policy, the policy name cannot be modified. The
name cannot exceed 32 characters.
Set the mode as Internal (Self), Centralized or Centralized Controller. Select
the Internal (Self) radio button to maintain the captive portal configuration
(Web pages) internally on the access point. Select the External
(Centralized) radio button if the captive portal is supported on an external
server. Select Centralized Controller for the captive portal to reside on the
access point's connected Virtual Controller AP. The default value is Internal
(Self).
When Centralized Server is selected as the Captive Portal Server Mode,
use the spinner control to set the VLAN where the client can reach the
controller. 0 is the default value.
Set a numeric IP address (non DNS hostname) for the server validating
guest user permissions for the captive portal policy. This option is only
available if hosting the captive portal on an External (Centralized) server
resource.
Select either the HTTP or HTTPS radio button to define the connection
medium. Motorola Solutions recommends the use of HTTPS, as is offers
additional data protection HTTP cannot provide. The default value however
is HTTP.
Select the checkbox and use the spinner control to set between 1-8192
users (client MAC addresses) allowed to simultaneously access and use
the access point's captive portal.
drop-down menu to select the Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) policy
Create icon, or an existing AAA policy can be
Edit icon. For information on
AAA Policy on page 6-72.