Enabling a captive portal
To get started implementing a captive portal on your network, perform the following steps:
- Navigate to
Services
|Captive Portal
. This page displays a table with all of the defined captive portal zones. There is a green+ Add
button down and to the right of the table; pressing this button allows you to add a zone. - When you add a zone, you are initially directed to the
Add Zone
page. Here you are required to enter theZone Name
, which can only contain letters, digits, and underscores. You can also enter a brief (non-parsed) description in theDescription
field. Enter this information and press theContinue
button. - Now we will be directed to the
Configuration
page, where we are presented with a warning that contains the following information:- Make sure you enable the DHCP server on the captive portal interface
- Make sure the maximum DHCP lease time is longer than the captive portal hard timeout
- Make sure the DNS forwarder or DNS resolver is enabled, or DNS lookups will not...