Motorola Solutions AP-6511 Access Point System Reference Guide
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9.1 Configuring Captive Portal Policies
A captive portal is guest access policy for providing guests temporary and restrictive access to the wireless
network. The primary means of securing such guest access is the use of a hotspot.
A captive portal policy’s hotspot configuration provides secure authenticated access using a standard Web
browser. Hotspots provides authenticated access by capturing and re-directing a wireless user's Web
browser session to a captive portal login page where the user must enter valid credentials to access to the
wireless network. Once logged into the hotspot, additional Agreement, Welcome and Fail pages provide the
administrator with a number of options on the hotspot’s screen flow and user appearance.
Hotspot authentication is used primarily for guest or visitor access to the network, but is increasingly being
used to provide authenticated access to private network resources when 802.1X EAP is not a viable option.
Hotspot authentication does not provide end-user data encryption, but it can be used with static WEP, WPA-
PSK or WPA2-PSK encryption.
AN AP-6511 Access Point supports RAIDUS authentication, but does not have an onboard RADIUS server for
local user authentication.
9.1.1 Configuring a Captive Portal Policy
To configure a guest access captive portal policy:
1. Select Configuration > Services.
The upper, left-hand, side of the user interface displays an area e where Captive Portal, DNS Whitelist
and DHCP Server Policy configuration options can be selected.
2. Select Captive Portals.
The Captive Portal screen displays the configurations of existing policies. New captive portal guest
access policies can be created, existing policies can be modified or existing policies deleted.
Figure 9-1 Captive Portal screen
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