Overview; Captive Portal And Exclude List - Nortel Secure Network Access Switch 4050 User Manual

386 Chapter 9 Customizing the portal and user logon
Topic
Changing the portal colors using the SREM
Configuring custom content using the SREM
Configuring linksets using the SREM
Configuring links using the SREM

Overview

The end user accesses the Nortel SNA network through the Nortel SNAS 4050
portal. You can customize the end user experience by configuring the following
logon and portal features:
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Captive portal and Exclude List

When the Nortel SNAS 4050 is configured to function as a captive portal, the
Nortel SNAS 4050 acts as a DNS proxy while clients are in the Red VLAN. The
captive web portal:
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"Captive portal and Exclude List" on page 386
• "Exclude List" on page 387
"Portal display" on page 389
• "Portal look and feel" on page 389
• "Language localization" on page 392
• "Linksets and links" on page 394
• "Macros" on page 395
• "Automatic redirection to internal sites" on page 396
• "Examples of redirection URLs and links" on page 396
"Managing the end user experience" on page 397
accepts redirected HTTP/HTTPS requests from the clients
resolves unknown names to a fixed IP address
receives and manages communication requests from the clients to
unauthorized network resources
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