Solved: Open Wireless authentication concept.

network_geek1979 · ‎04-13-2015

Folks,

We have been asked to explore the possibilities of getting an open wireless setup going for guests. This essentially means that guests coming in should get Internet access without having to feed in a username/password. Connecting to this SSID should take them to a portal page which mentions some policies about internet access. On accepting that the users must get Internet access.

Can this be achieved on the Cisco Wireless controllers? Has anyone heard about the industry using such Wireless authentication? Is there any know setup that uses this kind of configuration?

Thanks,

N.

Sandeep Choudhary · ‎04-14-2015

HI,

Yes you can use web-Pass through to achieve this.

By this method, guest just only need to read the term and conditions and click on accept.

1. set layer2 security to none and layer3 security to web- pass-through (see the image attached)

more info: http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless/4400-series-wireless-lan-controllers/107474-web-pass-config.html

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mohanak · ‎04-15-2015

Web Passthrough on Wireless LAN Controllers

Web passthrough is a solution that is typically used for guest access. The process of web passthrough is similiar to that of web authentication, except that no authentication credentials are required for web passthrough.

In web passthrough, wireless users are redirected to the usage policy page when they try to use the Internet for the first time. Once the users accept the policy, they can browse the Internet. This redirection to the policy page is handled by the WLC.

In this example, a VLAN interface is created on a separate subnet on the WLC. Then, a separate Wireless LAN (WLAN)/Service Set Identifier (SSID) is created and configured with web passthrough, and it is mapped to this VLAN interface.

http://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/support/docs/wireless-mobility/wireless-lan-wlan/116879-configure-wlc-00.html