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13.3.28 Captive Portal

Access Point Statistics
A captive portal forces a HTTP client to use a special Web page for authentication before using the Internet. A captive portal
turns a Web browser into a client authenticator. This is done by intercepting packets regardless of the address or port, until the
user opens a browser and tries to access the Internet. At that time, the browser is redirected to a Web page.
To view the captive portal statistics of an access point:
1. Select the Statistics
2. Select System
connected access points.
3. Select Captive
The Captive Portal
Client MAC
Client IP
Captive Portal
Authentication
WLAN
VLAN
Remaining Time
Refresh
menu from the Web UI.
from the navigation pane (on the left-hand side of the screen). Expand a RF Domain and select one of its
Portal.
Figure 13-87 Access Point - Captive Portal screen
screen displays the following:
Displays the MAC address of requesting wireless clients. The client address displays as a link
that can be selected to display configuration and network address information in greater
detail.
Displays the IP addresses of captive portal resource requesting wireless clients.
Displays the IP address of the captive portal page.
Displays the authentication status of requesting clients.
Displays the name of the WLAN utilizing the access point managed captive portal.
Displays the name of the access point VLAN the requesting client uses a virtual interface for
captive portal sessions.
Displays the time after which the client is disconnected from the captive portal hosted
Internet, and access point connectivity.
Select the Refresh button to update the screen's statistics counters to their latest values.