Motorola AP-51 Series Product Reference Manual page 206

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Use External URL
4. Use the
page used for hotspot access. Defining these settings is required when the
URL checkbox has been selected within the HTTP Redirection field
NOTE If an external URL is used, the external Web pages are required to forward
Login Page URL
Welcome Page URL
Fail Page URL
5. Select the
users (when exceeded) to re-establish their login credentials to continue using the access
point supported hotspot.
Leaving the checkbox unselected is not recommended unless you plan to provide unlimited
hotspot support to users.
If this option is selected, enter an interval (between 15 and 180 minutes). When the provided
interval is exceeded, the user is logged out of their hotspot session and forced to login to
the hotspot again to access to the hotspot supported WLAN. The default timeout interval is
15 minutes.
Select the
URLs for hotspot users to access the login, welcome and fail pages.
To create a redirected page, you need to have a TCP termination
locally. On receiving the user credentials from the login page, the
access point connects to a radius server, determines the identity of
the connected wireless user and allows the user to access the
Internet based on successful authentication.
External URL field to specify the location of the login page, welcome page and fail
user credentials to the access point, which in turn forwards them to the
authentication Server (either onboard or external server) in order to grant
users Web access.
Define the complete URL for the location of the Login page. The
Login screen will prompt the hotspot user for a username and
password to access the Welcome page.
Define the complete URL for the location of the Welcome page. The
Welcome page asserts the hotspot user has logged in successfully
and can access the Internet.
Define the complete URL for the location of the Fail page. The Fail
screen asserts the hotspot authentication attempt failed, you are
not allowed to access the Internet and you need to provide correct
login information to access the Internet.
Enable Hotspot User Timeout
Use External URL checkbox to define a set of external
checkbox to define a timeout interval forcing
Use External
.