Create a Walled Garden

A walled garden can be created for a captive portal to control access to Web content and services. A walled garden is often used in hotel environments. Unauthenticated users are given access to a designated login page and all of its allowed contents. When the unauthenticated user attempts to navigate to other websites that are not whitelisted in the walled garden profile, they are redirected to the login page.

To create a walled garden:

  1. Configure a network service to use either the built-in captive portal feature or a third-party captive portal in the Captive Portal field.
    The Walled Garden DNS Whitelist button displays.
  2. Select Walled Garden DNS Whitelist and add at least one fully qualified domain name (FQDN) to the whitelist.