WLC 9800 Webauth

[SRB66]

Would someone kindly of explain to me what the use case is for the "type: authbypass" in the L3 Webauth configuration tab. This selection essentially looks like mac authentication bypass.  

If the whole point of having webauth is to solicit the user to enter credentials, then why would you configure webauth to simply use the MAC address. 

The L2 tab on the other hand contains an option to do MAC filtering --- isn't this the right place to configure MAC based authentication?

[marce1000 · Accepted solution]

  - Ref : https://www.cisco.com/c/en/us/td/docs/wireless/controller/9800/config-guide/web-authentication/b-configuring-web-based-authentication-on-cisco-catalyst-9800-series-controllers.pdf
  >...
  >...Note that authbypass is not supported on wireless web authentication

 M.

[SRB66]

Thank you for the clarification and the reference document.

[MHM Cisco World · Accepted solution]

Webauth 
we classify the user into 
1- Guest have Password
2- Guest dont have any Password

the first group you can use WebAuth Local or Central WA 
the second group is if you sit in Cafe and there is free Wifi you can make Guest access and bypass Auth and the action can be send E0mail or ask some detail about the Guest 

I know both are so close but in real the second group can access without any real Auth
https://mrncciew.com/2013/03/21/wlc-web-authentication/

note:- group 2 not need MAC filter 
MHM

[SRB66 · Accepted solution]

Thank you.  The web link you provided contained very useful information that helped clear things up.