Introduction to Hotspot Web Portal
Selected Vigor Router supports built-in Hotspot Web Portal, which makes them a suitable Internet gateway in a public area. When customers connect to the router, the router can redirect them to a captive portal for authentication or policy agreement. Also, show the customer a landing page or bulletin message where the hotspot provider can promote themselves.
Portal Login Method
Vigor router offers various portal methods, including click-through, social login, PIN code, and Radius authentication.
As a Hotspot server, Vigor Router supports up to 4 profiles that can apply to different LAN subnet and SSID, so each of the subnet or SSID can have different login methods. For some examples of setting up Vigor Router as a hotspot, please refer to:
- Allow Hotspot User to Log In with Social Media Account
- Allow Hotspot User to Get Login PIN via SMS
- Authenticate Hotspot User with External RADIUS Server
Customized login page
It's possible to customize the background, login page, and policy terms.
Whitelist
The network administrator can also allow incoming traffic, specific source IP or destination domain, IP, and port to bypass Hotspot web portal.
Apply to different LAN and SSID
As a Hotspot server, Vigor Router supports up to 4 profiles that can apply to different LAN subnet and SSID.LAN Subnet interface option refers to wired(Ethernet) interface, wireless SSID which sets in VLAN group is not included.Wireless SSID should apply to WLAN interfaces down below.
Quota Management
The network administrator can set bandwidth limit, data, and time quota for Hotspot portal.
Click the index number to configure the quota policy profile.
- Account Validity: We can set up a limit of Expired Time and Idle timeout for clients.
- Device Control: We can limit the device number for a single profile. The same user can't be authenticated before the Reconnection time restriction expired.
- Set up Bandwidth and Session Limit for the quota policy profile.
Then apply it to each type of Hotspot clients.
User information
Vigor router can save and encrypt Hotspot clients' data to the database in USB disk connected to the router.
DrayTek Vigor Routers feature a built-in Hotspot Web Portal, making them ideal Internet gateways for public areas. When customers connect to the router, it can redirect them to a captive portal for authentication or to accept a policy agreement. Additionally, it can display a landing page or bulletin message where the hotspot provider can promote themselves.
In DrayOS5 Routers, the Hotspot Web Portal is integrated into the IAM function, acting as one of the access control modes within the access policy. This feature can be accessed via the IAM/Hotspot Web Portal menu on the router.
The DrayOS5 Router supports two profiles that can be applied to different LAN interfaces for the hotspot authentication. This article outlines the key features of the Hotspot Web Portal and demonstrates how to implement the hotspot profile in IAM Policies.
Portal Login Method
Vigor routers offer various portal login methods, including
- Click-through
- External Portal Server
- Social login (Facebook, Google)
- PIN code
- RADIUS
Customized login page
The network administrator can customize the background, logo, and policy contents for their hotspot login page.
Whitelist
For traffic from an internal server or directed to a specific website, we can add it to the Whitelist to bypass the hotspot authentication.
Quota Policy
The network administrator can limit hotspot users' bandwidth, connected devices, and other access permissions, as well as the validity period, in a quota policy profile.
For example, the hotspot user of the guest Wi-Fi is permitted to access the Internet with a bandwidth limit of 2Mbps/2Mbps, and the account remains valid for 1 hour.
Apply the Hotspot Profile in IAM Policies
To apply hotspot authentication to a LAN interface, we need to define an access policy in IAM / Access Policies.
- Select Guest Hotspot as the access control mode.
- Choose a hotspot profile.
- Configure each user's login session Lifetime.
Then select this policy profile in the interface for hotspot login under Apply Policies to LAN.
Published On:2018-11-27
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