Manage Guest Network Access Through Guest Portals And Captive Portals; Portal Concepts - NETGEAR ProSAFE WC7500 User Manual

The wireless controller imports the MAC addresses that are in the text file into the Rogue
List table.
9. Click the Apply button.
Your settings are saved.
Manage Guest Network Access Through Guest Portals and
Captive Portals
Users with management (admin) credentials—for example, receptionists or hotel clerks—can
provision guests. Guests must provide their email address, or both a login name and
password. These latter guests are referred to as captive portal users, for which you must set
up a captive portal and captive portal user credentials.
Note: The URL for the portal is http://<IP address>/guest_access/index.php
in which <IP address> is the IP address of the wireless controller.

Portal Concepts

You can configure multiple guest portals and assign a portal to a security profile in the basic
profile group or a security profile in an advanced profile group. The wireless controller pushes
a portal configuration to the SSID of a managed access point.
The wireless controller supports two types of portal settings:
• Guest portal. Use a guest portal if all WiFi users are allowed to access the network by
supplying only their email address. You do not need to define user names and passwords
for these users.
• Captive portal. Use a captive portal if WiFi users must supply their login name and
password before being allowing access the network. You must define user names and
passwords for these users (see
Captive portal authentication is typically used for hotspot users and paying guests such
as hotel guests who purchase access time for an Internet connection.
When you configure a captive portal, you can use either the wireless controller as a local
authentication server for the captive portal clients, or you can configure an external
RADIUS server for authentication.
You can configure the basic portal as a guest portal or a captive portal (see
Basic Guest Portal or Captive Portal
portals (any combination of guest portals and captive portals) as part of the advanced
portal group (see
Manage Rogue Access Points, Guest Network Access, and Users
ProSAFE Wireless Controller
Manage Users, Accounts, and Passwords
on page 224) and you can configure up to eight
Configure an Advanced Guest Portal or Captive Portal
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on page 236).
Configure a
on page 229).