Portal Configuration; Portal Overview; Introduction To Portal; Introduction To Extended Portal Functions - HP 4800G Series Configuration Manual

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Portal Configuration

When configuring portal, go to these sections for information you are interested in:

Portal Configuration Task List

Displaying and Maintaining Portal

Portal Configuration Examples

Troubleshooting Portal

Portal Overview

This section covers these topics:

Introduction to Extended Portal

Portal System Components

Portal Authentication Modes

Portal Authentication Process

Introduction to Portal

Portal authentication, as its name implies, helps control access to the Internet. Portal authentication is

also called web authentication and a website implementing portal authentication is called a portal

With portal authentication, an access device forces all users to log into the portal website at first. Every

user can access the free services provided on the portal website; but to access the Internet, a user must

pass portal authentication on the portal website.

A user can access a known portal website, enter username and password for authentication. This

authentication mode is called active authentication. There is still another authentication mode, namely

forced authentication, in which the access device forces a user trying to access the Internet through

HTTP to log in to a portal website for authentication.

The portal feature provides the flexibility for Internet service providers (ISPs) to manage services. A

portal website can, for example, present advertisements, and deliver community services and

personalized services. In this way, broadband network providers, equipment providers, and content

service providers form an industrial ecological system.

By forcing users to implement patching and anti-virus policies, extended portal functions help users to

defend against viruses. The main extended functions are described as follows:

Security authentication mechanism: The security authentication mechanism works after the

identity authentication process to check that the required anti-virus software, virus definition

updates and OS patches are installed, and no unauthorized software is installed on the terminal of

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