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TRENDnet User's Guide
Captive Portal
The captive portal feature allows you to provide customized authentication typically for
public WiFi users and guest user authentication. Captive Portal authentication is
typically used in areas such as hotel lobbies, airports, coffee shops and other WiFi hot
spots. The access points support both captive portal authentication through the built-in
user account database which includes basic portal customization or CoovaChlli which is
an open-source implementation of captive portal (UAM) function and 802.1X RADIUS
(please note CoovaChilli requires an external CoovaChilli server which must be
preconfigured to work and authenticate requests through the access point). The access
points also support URL/web page redirect without authentication for advertisement
purposes. The captive portal functionality of the access points can be managed through
the wireless controller and applied to select wireless profiles as desired. It is
recommended to disable standard WiFi security methods such as WEP/WPA/WPA2 in
order to use the captive portal authentication method instead on selected wireless
profiles. Before applying captive portal functionality to select wireless profiles, the
captive portal type must be configured first along with all required parameters.
Log into your controller management page (see
management
page" on page 10).
Click on Configuration and click Captive Portal and check Enable Captive Portal.
Select the Portal Mode:
Note: Only one mode can be used, multiple modes cannot be used at the same time.
A. To Internal Portal URL – This mode allows you to authenticate requests
through the built-in user account database and apply basic customization to
the captive port user login page. This option is recommended and does not
require an external authentication server.
B. To Advertisement URL – This mode requires no authentication and allows
redirection of users to a specific website/URL only.
C. Captive Portal with RADIUS (CoovaChilli) – This mode requires an external
CoovaChilli server to be configured to provide the captive portal user login
page and authenticate request through the access point.
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"Access you wireless controller
A. To Internal Portal URL
Configuration > Captive Portal
Choose the option To Internal Portal URL.
a. First, select the login authentication method for connecting your captive portal WiFi
network. At the Login Method drop-down list, select one of the following.
User name and password – Requires users to enter a user name and password
for authentication to connect to your captive portal WiFi network which must
be defined in the User List.
o
To create a new user account, next to Setting Username and
Password, enter the user name and password for the new user
account and click Add. Repeat to add more user accounts.
Single password – Requires users to enter a single password to connect your
captive portal WiFi network which must be defined in the Setting Single
Password settings.
o
To specify a single password, next to Setting Single Password, enter
the new password or click Generate to randomly generate a new
password.
Both – Users can enter either a user name and password or single password to
connect to your captive portal WiFi network. Both prompts will be displayed on
the captive portal page and user can select either method to authenticate.
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