Siemens SCALANCE W1750D UI

Captive Portal for Guest Access
13.5 Configuring External Captive Portal for Guest Network
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4. Configure the following external Captive Portal configuration parameters based on the
type of splash page you selected.
Parameter
Description
Captive-portal proxy server If required, configure a captive portal proxy server or a global proxy
server to match your browser configuration by specifying the IP
address and port number in the
Captive-portal proxy server
text
box.
WISPr Select
Enabled
if you want to enable WISPr authentication. For
more information on WISPr authentication, see
Configuring WISPr
Authentication (Page 233).
NOTE:
The WISPr authentication is applicable only for the
External
and
Internal- Authenticated
splash pages and is not applicable for
wired profiles.
MAC authentication Select
Enabled
if you want to enable MAC authentication. For in-
formation on MAC authentication, see
Configuring MAC Authentica-
tion for a Network Profile (Page 229).
Delimiter character Specify a character ( for example, colon or dash) as a delimiter for
the MAC address string. When configured, the AP will use the de-
limiter in the MAC authentication request. For example, if you speci-
fy colon as the delimiter, MAC addresses in the xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
format are used. If the delimiter is not specified, the MAC address in
the xxxxxxxxxxxx format is used.
NOTE:
This option is available only when MAC authentication is
enabled.
Uppercase support Set to
Enabled
to allow the AP to use uppercase letters in MAC
address string for MAC authentication.
NOTE:
This option is available only if MAC authentication is ena-
bled.
Authentication server To configure an authentication server, select any of the following
options:
• If the server is already configured, select the server from the list.
• To create new external RADIUS server, select
New
. For more
information, see
Configuring an External Server for Authentica-
tion (Page 209).
Reauth interval Specify a value for the reauthentication interval at which the APs
periodically reauthenticate all associated and authenticated clients.
Accounting mode Select an accounting mode from the
Accounting mode
drop-down
list for posting accounting information at the specified
Accounting
interval
. When the accounting mode is set to
Authentication
, the
accounting starts only after client authentication is successful and
stops when the client logs out of the network. If the accounting
mode is set to
Association
, the accounting starts when the client
associates to the network successfully and stops when the client is
disconnected.