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WAC720 Captive Portal Problems
I'm currently trying to setup a Guest Network on my pair of WAC720s (both on firmware 3.5.12.0) that are managed using Ensemble. I have 3 SSIDs: "Office" secured using WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK on VLAN 52, "O...
DaneA,
Thank you for the reply and the welcome.
Your first question "Do you also have a captive portal configured on Office and Office_5G? If yes, does same problem happen?" prompted me to try enabling Captive Portal on Office. It imediately worked. This showed promise so I played with the settings some more. Turns out that the problem was with the security setup between the VLANs on my Cisco Router (2921). I don't want computers connected to my Guest network (VLAN 59) to have access to the computers on my Office network (VLAN 52). Since the captive portal is hosted by the access points and IP addresses and management interfaces for the access points were on VLAN 52 anyone on VLAN 59 could not access them. I am working on settings now so that Guests can access the APs but nothing else.Thank you!
cjaques
DaneA,
Thank you for the reply and the welcome.
Your first question "Do you also have a captive portal configured on Office and Office_5G? If yes, does same problem happen?" prompted me to try enabling Captive Portal on Office. It imediately worked. This showed promise so I played with the settings some more. Turns out that the problem was with the security setup between the VLANs on my Cisco Router (2921). I don't want computers connected to my Guest network (VLAN 59) to have access to the computers on my Office network (VLAN 52). Since the captive portal is hosted by the access points and IP addresses and management interfaces for the access points were on VLAN 52 anyone on VLAN 59 could not access them. I am working on settings now so that Guests can access the APs but nothing else.
Thank you!
cjaques
Hi cjaques,
I am glad that you were able to isolate the problem and resolved it. :)
Feel free to post your future concerns here in the community.
Cheers,
DaneA
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