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176 Meru System Director Configuration Guide © 2012 Meru Networks, Inc.
Configuring Meru Captive Portal
MC3K-1(config)# exit
MC3K-1#
MC3K-1# show guest-user
Guest User Name Service Start Time Service End Time
Guest 01/01/2010 00:00:00 01/01/2011 00:00:00
Guest User Table(1 entry)
The commands in this section show how to configure Captive Portal. The Radius
server user configuration is performed separately, and is vendor-specific. (Check the
Customer Service website for applicable Application Notes.) The Microsoft Internet
Explorer and Netscape 7 browsers are both supported for the client application.
1. Create the Security Profile for the WebAuth Captive Portal:
default# configure terminal
default(config)# security-profile web_auth
default(config-security)# captive-portal webauth
default(config-security)# exit
default(config)# exit
2. Bind the web_auth Security Profile to an ESSID:
default# configure terminal
default(config)# essid WebAuth-meru-WIFI
default(config-essid)# security-profile web_auth
default(config-essid)# exit
3. Set the SSL server to use the primary Radius authentication server profile:
default(config)# ssl-server radius-profile primary main-auth
default(config)# end
4. Save the configuration:
default(config)# copy running-config startup-config
When users are authenticated, they can be moved into a corporate VLAN, and can
have QosRules applied to their session. Each user will have a supplied default session
timeout, which if nothing is supplied, will be the default of 33 minutes. If a user
disconnects and connects back to same SSID on the same controller within 60
seconds, no re-authentication will be required.The session time returned from the
radius server takes priority. If the radius server doesn’t return the session time,
configured values are used.
Create Meru Captive Portal Guest User IDs Locally
For authentication purposes, you can set up guest user IDs instead of using Radius
authentication. (This is also a backup for Radius authentication; if Radius fails, this
list is then used.) Releases 3.6 and later support user IDs. Be sure that the field Over-
ride Radius Configuration is set to On when using Guest IDs (click Configuration >
Security > Captive Portal).