Configuring Captive Portal Policies; Configuring A Captive Portal Policy - Motorola WiNG 5 System Reference Manual

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9.1 Configuring Captive Portal Policies

A captive portal is guest access policy for providing guests temporary and restrictive access to the access point
managed wireless network.
A captive portal policy's configuration provides secure authenticated access using a standard Web browser. Captive
portals provide authenticated access by capturing and re-directing a wireless user's Web browser session to a captive
portal login page where the user must enter valid credentials to access to the wireless network. Once logged into the
captive portal, additional Terms and Conditions, Welcome and Fail pages provide the administrator with a number of
options on screen flow and appearance.
Captive portal authentication is used primarily for guest or visitor access to the network, but is increasingly being
used to provide authenticated access to private network resources when 802.1X EAP is not a viable option. Captive
portal authentication does not provide end-user data encryption, but it can be used with static WEP, WPA-PSK or
WPA2-PSK encryption.
Each supported access point model can support up to 32 captive portal policies, with the exception of
AP-6511 and AP-6521 models, which can only support 16 captive portal policies.

9.1.1 Configuring a Captive Portal Policy

To configure a captive portal policy:
1. Select Configuration
The upper, left-hand, side of the user interface displays an area e where Captive Portal, DNS Whitelist and DHCP
Server Policy configuration options can be selected.
2. Select Captive
> Services.
Portals.