WiNG 5.2 Captive Portal problem

[luca]

I've encountered a few problems implementing captive portal.

I've an RFS4010 (WiNG 5.2) and 2 AP650.
I'd like to configure an internal captive portal with internal radius server to authenticate the users.

Reading the SRG guide, it seems that I've to set “captive portal server mode” checkbox as “Internal (Self)”.
I done this config and:
- I turn on my wi-fi card and associate to one AP
- I opened the browser and I was redirected to the captive portal login page
The problem is that the ip address shown in the URL bar was that one of the AP650.
When i've inserted username and password, authentication failed.

I hought that the captive portal http and radius server should be the RFS4010.

Have you got any idea?

Thank you in advance.
regards,
Luca

[Michael McNamara]

I believe the AP650 is a lightweight Access Port that requires a wireless switch. I would agree with your assumption that the captive portal and RADIUS server should be running on the RFS4010. Are you sure you haven't mixed up your WLANs and VLAN assignments? I'm assuming you have the AP650 cabled directly to the RFS4010 using one of it's PoE ports?

I would suggest you start troubleshooting by removing the captive portal feature and just test that your WLANs and VLANs and IP addressing is all good. Then you can go back to testing the captive portal portion of it.

Cheers!

[luca]

AP650 require a RFS but with firmware 5.x they can act both as http server for netlogin pages than as radius server.

Today I tried to configure “captive portal server mode” checkbox as “centralized” and I've seen that html pages come from the RFS: good.

The second problem are still unresolved: radius authentication still fails.

Connectivity is OK: association is OK, DNS rolution is OK (with DNS whitelist), ping to RFS or DNS are OK, ping to any other host host KO (because authentication fails).

Regards

[Michael McNamara]

Have you examined the logs on the wireless switch?

[luca]

Hi Michael,
I've resolved mi problem.

When I've correctly understood what that Motorola means with the terms "internal", "extrenal", "on-borad" I found the correct configuration for httpd server and radiusd server.

Forthermore I made ​​an error writing the wlan name (cli has line complation but Web interface hasn't).

Cheers

[Michael McNamara]

I'm happy to hear you were able to get everything working.

Cheers!