topic What is Captive Portal? in General Topics

What is Captive Portal?

s.williams1 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 14:45:54 GMT

I am having a hard time understanding what captive portal is and what the function is of this feature?

Re: What is Captive Portal?

BPry — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:43:23 GMT

It's essentially like a network sign-on process. Most people utilize it if they need to map an IP address to a username and don't have any other way to do so. It also is pretty handy in BYOD deployments where you wouldn't really have machines joined to a domain, but you still want them to be mapped to that users account.

Re: What is Captive Portal?

s.williams1 — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:46:38 GMT

So its an interactive website? I had an issue today where a contractor came in and plugged in his own personal laptop and couldnt get out to the web due to not having the domain cert. So how can I use this to control this type of situation?

Re: What is Captive Portal?

BPry — Mon, 30 Oct 2017 18:59:26 GMT

@s.williams1

That really depends on how the rest of your configuration is setup. Is your network authd at the switch or do you only allow known-users on all of your firewall security policies?