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Captive Portal is a HotSpot service that allows to add restrictions for the users concerning online time and download amount. This service can also be used for wireless LAN. Until the user has not been authenticated, he is redirected to the login mask of the service. After he logged in successfully, he can use all Internet services that are allowed by firewall rules.
You must only select the interface where the services should listen at. After starting the service you will get network information like IP address from the DHCP server that is also part of the service. You will get an IP address out of the range that has been entered at the web interface.
ATTENTION: Be careful that the network range you define here does not touch another network range configured at another interface. This can cause trouble.
The list "Allowed Addresses without authentication" can contain URLs that can be reached without authentication.
At the index card Default Values you can limit the users download/upload rates. If you do not enter any values here there is no limit set.
NOTE: If you use an Active Directory authentication the index card is not shown.
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