Configure Captive Portals - Digi Connect EZ 4 User Manual

Firewall

Configure captive portals

Captive portals are commonly used on public-access networks to require users to login or accept
terms and conditions before accessing the internet.
To configure captive portals:
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WebUI
1. Log into the Connect EZ WebUI as a user with full Admin access rights.
2. On the menu, click System. Under Configuration, click Device Configuration.
The Configuration window is displayed.
3. Click Firewall > Captive portals.
4. For Add captive portal:, enter a name for the portal and click .
The captive portal configuration window is displayed.
The captive portal is enabled by default. To disable, click to toggle off Enable.
5. For Interface, select the network interface for the portal.
Traffic received on this interface's network device will not be forwarded unless the client has
been granted access.
6. For Session timeout, type the amount of time that a user session remains valid. After the
session times out, the user will be required to log in again.
Allowed values are any number of weeks, days, hours, minutes, or seconds, and take the
format number{w|d|h|m|s}.
For example, to set Session timeout to ten minutes, enter 10m or 600s.
7. For Portal HTTP access, configure whether the portal can be accessed over an insecure
connection.
Allow: Allows access to the portal page over an insecure connection (HTTP port 80).
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Redirect to HTTPS: Automatically redirects the request to a secure connection (HTTPS
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port 443).
Disallow: Does not allow access over an insecure connection (HTTP port 80).
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