Open WiFi?

[sheps]

I want to provide free WiFi to customers at a restaurant/coffee shop type setting. I don' t want to make them authenticate in any fashion (no usernames/passwords, no WPA/WPA2 keys, etc). Can this be done on a FortiWiFi/FortiAP? As an alternative, I would be happy with using a Captive Portal (to force the customers to click " I Accept" ), but again I don' t want to make them use a password of any sort. This doesn' t seem to be possible via the Web GUI, but how about command line? Anyone?

[rwpatterson]

Just turn off authentication on the WiFi and it' s wide open. Don' t use FortiAPs myself, but I don' t see how they could be much different...

[sheps]

Thanks for Replying. If I go to WiFi Network -> SSID -> Create New, and look under " Security Mode" , I have 3 options: - WPA/WPA2-Personal - WPA/WPA2-Enterprise - Captive Portal I don' t see any way to turn off Security/Authentication. Am I missing something? Thanks.

[rwpatterson]

OK, before I get too deep in the hole, what firmware version and what platform? You mentioned FortiAP. I don' t use those, so there may be some intricacy I' m not aware of. Also, I haven' t advanced past 4.2.x, so the 4.3 and 5.0 lines may have other conditions as well.

[sheps]

I' m running FortiGates w/ 4.0 MR3 Patch 2 through Patch 12. I' m running FortiAP' s w/ 4.0 MR3 at various patch levels as well. I' m waiting on delivery for my first FortiWiFi units, so I haven' t installed a firmware on those yet. I' m not running anything on 4.2.

[rwpatterson]

OK, I' m going to bow out here. Hopefully someone with experience on your build and hardware level has some input for you. P.S. - I could have just looked at your signature, duh!

[Carl_Wallmark]

Open Security can only be enabled in CLI on older firmwares. In the latest 5.x firmware, you can enable it from the GUI as well.

[sheps]

Open Security can only be enabled in CLI on older firmwares. In the latest 5.x firmware, you can enable it from the GUI as well.

Yes! Thank you! This is exactly what I wanted to hear! Any idea on where I can find documentation on the command line/config file syntax? I tried searching for it, suspecting that to be the case, before I posted here. I' m willing to try 5.x but I' d rather test that in a lab first, so I' d like to know how to accomplish this through the CLI on 4.0 MR3 in the mean time. Thanks!

[ede_pfau]

this might help (for 4.3):

config wireless-controller vap edit <vap_name> set security {captive-portal | open | wep128 | wep64 | wpa-enterprise | wpa-only-enterprise | wpa-only-personal | wpa-personal | wpa2-only-enterprise | wpa2_only-personal} ...

from " FortiOSâ„¢ CLI Reference,FortiOS 4.0 MR3"

[sheps]

You' re a life saver! That did the trick. Thanks.