Description | This article describes how to set up an SSID that lives over an interface at the L3 level, and the portal is being managed by the FortiGate. |
Scope | FortiGate, FortiAP. |
Solution |
To set up a captive portal being managed by the FortiGate and use it as an alternative to 802.1x authentication, follow the next:
The redirection after captive portal successful access is optional, but it works to push the successful authentication access to an external URL.
After this setup, at the moment a user tries to use a resource that comes across the SSID interface will be redirected to a captive portal before being forwarded to the destination.
Note: Do not forget to create the respective policy to allow access to the source SSID to a destination (In this example, the internet. For the fortiGate, the interface WAN acts as an upstream Interface). |
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