Overview; Important; Local Mode; Supporting Pdas - Colubris Networks CN3000 Administrator's Manual

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Overview

The public access interface is the sequence of web pages that customers use to login,
logout, and view the status of their wireless sessions. The CN3000 ships with a default
interface which you can customize to meet the needs of your installation. However,
before you do this you should initialize the default setup and test it with your network.
Once the default interface is working, you can make changes to it as described in
Chapter
This chapter presents the minimum tasks required to get the public access interface
working and enable customer authentication via a RADIUS server.

Important

Unless you operate in local mode (see below), the CN3000 public access interface
will not be functional until the CN3000 can successfully connect to a RADIUS
server and authenticate itself. This means that the login page for the public
access interface will appear, but customers will get an error when they try to log
in. This applies regardless of the method you are using to authenticate
customers.
Until you define access lists (see page
apply:
• Unauthenticated customers cannot reach any network resources other than the
• Authenticated customers have access to any network resources connected to

Local mode

The CN3000 can operate in local mode, which removes the need for a RADIUS server
to authenticate the CN3000. To use local mode, see

Supporting PDAs

Customers using PDAs that only support a single browser window will have difficulty
using the public access interface in its standard configuration.
To solve this problem, see
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Task
Setting up the CN3000 RADIUS client
Setting up CN3000 authentication
Setting up customer authentication
Setting up the RADIUS server
Testing the public access interface
CN3000 login page.
the CN3000's Internet port.
153 for details) the following conditions
"Supporting PDAs" on page
For instructions
See page 97.
See page 100.
See page 102.
See page 104.
See page 105.
"Local mode" on page 50.
120.