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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.
1. Log into your controller management page (see
management
page" on page 12).
2. 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.
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.
To Advertisement URL – This mode requires no authentication and allows
redirection of users to a specific website/URL.
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
TEW-755AP2KAC / TEW-821DAP2KAC
To Internal Portal URL
Configuration > Captive Portal
Choose the option To Internal Portal URL.
First, enter a user name and password account for users to authenticate and
authentication timeout value and click Apply to save the settings.
Setting Username and Password – Enter the user name and password required
for users to enter when connecting to your wireless network. This will be the
user name and password required for users to enter in your captive portal web
page for authentication in order for users to connect to your wireless network.
(e.g. User Name: guestuser / Password: 1234567890)
Authentication Timeout – This is the session time period (minutes) which users
are allowed to be logged in to your wireless network. Once the time expires,
users will automatically logged and will need to log back in through the captive
portal page again in order to reconnect to your wireless network. It is
recommended to set a value to ensure authentication sessions are closed after
a certain time period.
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