There are occasions on which you want some computers to be able to freely access the Internet with- out being authenticated first. For example, you may want your wired desktop computers connected with the Router to be uncontrolled by the Router while providing wireless Internet access service for your customers with wireless laptop computers. The Unrestricted Clients feature is for this purpose.
You can specify the computers to be uncontrolled by IP address or MAC address.
To specify uncontrolled computers within an IP address range:
1.Specify the Stating IP and End IP addresses of the IP address range.
2.Click Add. Then you’ll see the newly entered IP address range appear in the IP
To specify a uncontrolled computer by MAC address:
1.Specify its MAC address.
2.Click Add. Then you’ll see the newly entered MAC address appear in the MAC
2.13.1.3.Walled Garden
Fig. 87. Walled garden settings.
IP addresses or URLs in the walled garden can be accessed without authentication. This feature is useful for WISPs to do advertisement. For example, a WISP can set up a Web server to contain adver- tisement information for users who have not subscribed to its wireless Internet access service. The walled garden links are shown on the
To add a link to the walled garden:
1.Describe this link in the Prompt text box.
2.Specify the URL of this link in the URL text box.
3.Click Add. Then you’ll see the newly entered hyperlink appear in the Walled Garden Table.
NOTE:
You cannot specify a Web site that supports Web redirection, which redirects HTTP re- quests to another URL, as a walled garden site. If such a
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