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337| Captive Portal Authentication Dell Networking W-Series ArubaOS 6.5.x| User Guide
l Support for ? (question mark) inside the Captive Portal login URL has been added.
l A new field, description has been introduced in the netdestination and netdestination6 commands to
provide a description about the netdestination up to 128 characters long.
l Support for configuring Whitelist in Captive Portal has been introduced.
l Support for bypassing Captive Portal landing page has been introduced.
The Captive Portal enhancements are available on Tunnel and Split-Tunnel forwarding modes.
Configuring the Redirect-URL
You can configure the Captive Portal redirect URL using the following commands:
(host) (config) # aaa authentication captive-portal REDIRECT
(host) (Captive Portal Authentication Profile "REDIRECT") #redirect-url <absolute-URL>
Example:
(host) (config) # aaa authentication captive-portal REDIRECT
(host) (Captive Portal Authentication Profile "REDIRECT") #redirect-url https://test-login.php
Configuring the Login URL
You can configure a Captive Portal login URL up to 2048 characters using the following commands:
(host) (config) # aaa authentication captive-portal LOGIN
(host) (Captive Portal Authentication Profile "LOGIN")#login-page
"http://10.17.36.100/login.php?isinit=1&mac=00:11:22:33:44:55&loginURL=https://captiveportal-
login.test.aero/auth/index.html&originalURL=&statusURL=&error=&logginIn”
You can configure the login URL with “?” (question mark) character in it provided the URL containing the question
mark is within the double quotes.
Defining Netdestination Descriptions
You can provide a description (up to 128 characters) for the netdestination using the CLI.
Use the following commands to provide description for an IPv4 netdestination:
(host) (config) #netdestination Local-Server
(host) (config-dest) #description “This is a local server for IPv4 client registration
Use the following commands to provide description for an IPv6 netdestination:
(host) (config) #netdestination6 Local-Server6
(host) (config-dest) #description “This is a local server for IPv6 client registration
The following command displays the details of the specified IPv4 netdestination:
(host) (config-dest) #show netdestination Local-Server
Local-Server Description: This is a local server for IPv4 client registration
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Position Type IP addr Mask-Len/Range
-------- ---- ------- --------------
1 name 0.0.0.1 yahoomail
2 name 0.0.0.2 mycorp
3 name 0.0.0.3 cricinfo
The following command displays the details of the specified IPv6 netdestination:
(host) (config-dest) #show netdestination Local-Server6
Local-Server6 Description: This is a local server for IPv6 client registration
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Position Type IP addr Mask-Len/Range
-------- ---- ------- --------------