User manual NETGEAR WFS709TP

[. . . ] WFS709TP ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch Software Administration Manual NETGEAR, Inc. 4500 Great America Parkway Santa Clara, CA 95054 USA 202-10265-01 June 2007 © 2007 by NETGEAR, Inc. All rights reserved. Technical Support Please refer to the support information card that shipped with your product. By registering your product at http://www. netgear. com/register, we can provide you with faster expert technical support and timely notices of product and software upgrades. [. . . ] However, if the same parameters are configured for global and location-specific APs for a WLAN, the location-specific values override global values. For example, if you set the maximum number of clients to 30 in the global configuration for WLAN-01 and set the maximum number of clients to 15 for location 1. 2. 1 for the same SSID, the APs in location 1. 2. 1 will have a maximum of 15 clients. Configuring Global Parameters To configure global parameters that affect all APs in the network: Configuring WLANS v1. 0, June 2007 5-9 WFS709TP ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch Software Administration Manual · · · Navigate to the Configuration > Advanced > WLAN > Network > SSID page to add or modify SSIDs. Navigate to the Configuration > Advanced > WLAN > Network > General page to configure or modify AP parameters. Navigate to the Configuration > Advanced > WLAN > Radio page to configure radio settings. Configuring Location-Specific Parameters To configure parameters that only affect APs in specific locations in the network: 1. Navigate to the Configuration > Advanced > WLAN > Advanced page. Enter a location ID in the format building. floor. plan, where each value is an integer. · Select the 802. 11b/g or 802. 11a tab to configure radio settings. Note: The global pages and location-specific configuration tabs contain identical configuration parameters, which are described in the following sections. Remember that location-specific values override global values for the same parameters. Add or Modify SSIDs You can configure 802. 11 settings for an SSID in the Basic or Advanced WLAN configuration pages. The Advanced WLAN pages also allow you to configure additional SSID settings that are not available in the Basic configuration page; these settings are described later in this section. Navigate to the Configuration > Advanced > WLAN > Network > SSID page. Select whether you want to add a new SSID or modify an existing SSID, · · To add a new SSID, click Add. To edit an existing SSID click Edit. 5-10 v1. 0, June 2007 Configuring WLANS WFS709TP ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch Software Administration Manual The SSID configuration page appears. To add or modify an SSID for APs in a specific location in the network: 1. Navigate to the Configuration > Advanced > WLAN > Advanced page (Table 5-3). Enter a location ID in the format building. floor. plan, where each value is an integer. Select the SSID tab to add or modify SSIDs. Figure 5-3 Default SSID The default SSID is netgear-ap. Advanced SSID Configuration Settings The SSID configuration in the Advanced WLAN pages allow you to configure the following SSID settings that are not available in the Basic configuration page: · Forward Mode. Controls whether 802. 11 frames are tunneled to the WFS709TP using Generic Routing Encapsulation (GRE), or bridged into the local Ethernet LAN. This setting can also be configured on a per-radio basis in the radio settings pages. This setting can also be configured on a per-radio basis in the radio settings pages. Configuring WLANS v1. 0, June 2007 5-11 WFS709TP ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch Software Administration Manual · Ignore Broadcast Probe Request. When a client sends a broadcast probe request frame to search for all available SSIDs, this option controls whether or not the system responds for this SSID. [. . . ] In order to actually use this file, you will need to configure the welcome page on the WFS709TP. You can change this via the GUI under Configuration->Authentication Methods->Captive-Portal>Welcome Page Login. A simple example that will create the same page as Figure C-2 is shown below: The part of the script in red will redirect the user to the web page they originally requested. <html> <head> <script> { function readCookie(name) C-12 v1. 0, June 2007 Internal Captive Portal WFS709TP ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch Software Administration Manual { var nameEQ = name + "="; var ca = document. cookie. split(';'); for(var i=0;i < ca. length;i++) { var c = ca[i]; while (c. charAt(0)==' ') c = c. substring(1, c. length); if (c. indexOf(nameEQ) == 0) return c. substring(nameEQ. length, c. length); } return null; } var cookieval = readCookie('url'); if (cookieval. length>0) document. write("<meta httpequiv=\"refresh\" content=\"2;url=http://"+cookieval+"\""+">"); } </script> </head> <body bgcolor=white text=000000> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size=+1> <b>User Authenticated </b> <p>In 2 seconds you will be automatically redirected to your original web page</p> <p> Press control-d to bookmark this page. </p> <FORM ACTION="/auth/logout. html"> Internal Captive Portal v1. 0, June 2007 C-13 WFS709TP ProSafe Smart Wireless Switch Software Administration Manual <INPUT type="submit" name="logout" value="Logout"> </FORM> </font> </body> </html> If you customize the welcome page, then you must also customize the pop-up, box if you want to have one. Customizing the Pop-Up Box Before you can customize the pop-up box, you must customize your welcome page. Once you have customized your welcome page, then you can configure your custom page to make a pop-up box to enable your users to log themselves out. [. . . ]