Configuring Accounting and Authentication

The next step in configuring a WLAN (Wireless Local Area Network) Service is to set up the authentication mechanism. There are various authentication modes available:

• None
• Internal Captive Portal
• External Captive Portal
• GuestPortal
• GuestSplash
• Firewall-Friendly External Captive Portal
• 802.1x authentication (The wireless device user must be authenticated before gaining network access.)
  

  Note

  You cannot configure accounting and authentication for a remote WLAN service. The authentication that you configure for the corresponding remoteable WLAN service applies to the remote WLAN service as well.

The first step for any type of authentication is to select RADIUS servers for the following:

• Authentication
• Accounting
• MAC-based authentication

For more information, see Selecting RADIUS Servers.

For more information about captive portal, see Configuring Basic Captive Portal Settings