topic Captive Portal Help in ExtremeWireless (WiNG)

Captive Portal Help

Sethg103 — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 00:14:26 GMT

I have a guest SSID setup but I'd like to enable a basic captive portal service for it. The portal just needs them to accept the terms and maybe have them type their email so we have a record of who connected. Is there an easy way to get this working?

Re: Captive Portal Help

Tomasz — Fri, 05 Mar 2021 03:47:02 GMT

Hi,

Sure there is, I put few how-to guides to captive portals on WiNG here: https://1drv.ms/u/s!AvxWpCsRBHSfhEZSnwi05ZjYT4y6?e=r89wLz

In brief, you’ll need relevant Captive Portal policy being created, assigned to both the WLAN and a profile of devices that are about to host the portal (controller or APs).

Hope that helps,

Tomasz

Re: Captive Portal Help

Sethg103 — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 04:45:18 GMT

@Tomasz Will the NX5500 be able to handle this? I saw in one of your PDFs that :

“In certain scenarios when customers are still running legacy WiNG5 controllers (RFSX000 or smaller NX55XX) or have multiple isolated installations with multiple NX clusters, using default onboard Captive Portal guest registration may not be feasible due to the fact that main controller or cluster of controllers will either not support guest user database or will not be able to consolidate all the users from all independent WiNG clusters.”

If it can handle the captive portal which one of your PDFs do you recommend?

Re: Captive Portal Help

Sethg103 — Sat, 06 Mar 2021 05:34:22 GMT

I shouldn’t need any kind of RADIUS or authentication, I think just accepting the terms and conditions will be fine.