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Set Up and Manage a Captive Portal
This chapter describes how you can set up and manage a captive portal on the access
point.
A captive portal is a web page that users see when they attempt to connect to a WiFi
network. A captive portal includes a splash page and usually requires some form of
authentication for the user. The access point supports three types of captive portals:
•
Click-through captive portal: A basic portal for which the splash page is stored on
the access point. For each WiFi network, you can set up a unique click-through
captive portal.
•
External captive portal: A portal that is hosted by an external captive portal vendor.
You can apply an external captive portal to multiple WiFi networks or you can apply
a unique external captive portal to each WiFi network.
•
Facebook Wi-Fi captive portal: A Facebook business page that serves as a portal.
You can configure a single Facebook Wi-Fi captive portal on the access point but
you can apply it to multiple WiFi networks.
The chapter includes the following sections:
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Set up a click-through captive portal for a WiFi network
•
Set up an external captive portal for a WiFi network
•
Register and configure Facebook Wi-Fi for the access point
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Set up a Facebook Wi-Fi captive portal for a WiFi network
•
Unregister the access point from Facebook Wi-Fi
Note: A captive portal is not compatible with Multi PSK. To enable a captive portal, first
disable Multi PSK (see Set up Multi PSK for a WiFi network on page 78).
Note: In this manual,
WiFi network
means the same as SSID (service set identifier or
WiFi network name) or VAP (virtual access point). That is, when we refer to a WiFi network
we mean an individual SSID or VAP.
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