Nomadix HotSpot - Miscellaneous Options

HOTSPOT GATEWAY
System Administration 117
Miscellaneous Options
4. In the “Miscellaneous Options” category, Enter a value for the time (in seconds)
in the
Default User Idle Timeout field. This value determines how much “idle”
time elapses before the subscriber’s session times out and they must login again.
5. The HSG can reauthenticate “repeat” subscribers who return to the system within
720 hours. To enable this feature, click on the check box for
Enable Automatic
Subscriber Reauthentication
.
6. If you want to enable the URL redirection feature, click on the check box for
Enable URL Redirection.
7. For a Network Access Server (NAS), if you want to send a NAS identifier with
your account access request, click on the check box for
Send NAS identifier,
then define the NAS identifier in the
NAS identifier field.
8. To send the NAS IP address with your account request, click on the check box
for
Send NAS IP.
9. To send a NAS port type with your account request, click the check box for Send
NAS Port type, then
define the NAS port in the NAS Port Type field.
10. To send the Framed IP address with your account request, click on the check box
for
Send Framed IP.
11. If required, check the box for Enable Session-Terminate-End-Of-Day When
Authorized
(to allow business policies that want to terminate the session at
midnight of every day).
12. If required, check the box for Enable Byte Count Reset On Account Start (to
reset the transmitted and received byte count for a subscriber once an
“accounting start” is sent). This function prevents counting Walled Garden traffic
if the billing plan is using bytes sent/received as a charge criterion.
13. If required, check the box for Enable Radius Subnet Attribute (if you want to
allocate a specific subnet to a user).
14. If required, check the box for Enable Goodbye URL (if you want the system to
display a post session “goodbye” page). The “goodbye” page can be defined as a
RADIUS VSA or be driven by the HSG’s Internal Web Server (IWS).
15. If required, check the box for Enable WAN 802.1q Attribute. To enable the
default 802.1q tag, click on the check box for Enable Default 802.1q Tag for
System Traffic
and, if necessary, enter the tag number (see caution).
16. Click on the Submit button to save your changes, or click on the Reset button if
you want to reset all the values to their previous state.
Changing the default tag number may result in a loss of connectivity.