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AP-2500 Authentication Methods

• If you want all outgoing mail traffic redirected to the specified server, enable both the Misconfigured and

Properly Configured options. Misconfigured refers to subscribers whose e-mail settings are incompatible

with the AP-2500’s Internet settings (in other words, these email settings may work on the subscriber’s home

or office network but they won’t work in the hotspot); Properly Configured refers to subscribers whose email

settings should work on the hotspot network so you do not necessarily need to redirect these messages to

your own server. If you want properly configured subscribers to send mail without being redirected, enable

only the Misconfigured option. In general, Proxim recommends that you enable both options. Also, you

should never enable Properly Configured and disable Misconfigured (this combination defeats the purpose

of SMTP Redirection).

25. If you want to redirect the user to a specified URL following successful authentication, click HPR and configure the

Home Page Redirection options. See Home Page Redirection (HPR) for details.

• If you are using a Portal Page, review Portal Page before configuring the Home Page Redirection options.

26. If you want a customized banner applet to appear on subscriber’s browser screens, click ICC and configure the

Information and Control Console options. See Information and Control Console (ICC) for details, caveats, and

customization instructions.

• The ICC is a Java applet that is pushed to your customer’s Web browsers. It displays information about the

user’s connection (such as access time remaining) and allows your customer to dynamically change

subscription plans. You can also customize the ICC’s banners and buttons to promote partner Web sites.

27. If you want to block subscribers from accessing certain Web sites, click URLFilter and configure the URL Filtering

options. See URL Filtering for details.

28. Click the Subscriber button.

29. Click the Billing tab and configure the Internal Billing Options. See Billing Options for Subscribers for details.

• You can design up to six billing plans; the Internal Billing Options apply to all six plans. For example, if you

configure Units of Access to Hour, all six plans must be offered on a per-hour basis.

30. Click the Plan tabs to define the billing plans that will be available to your customers. You can configure up to six

plans based on price of service, bandwidth allowed, access time, and IP address type (private or public). See

Billing Options for Subscribers and IP Upsell for more information.

31. Click the Mirroring tab if you want to have copies of credit card transactions sent to external servers. See Credit

Card Mirroring for details.

32. Click the Messages tab to customize the messages and screens that are presented to the customer including the

Subscriber Messages for details.

• A default logo appears on the subscriber login page for new units. You will want to replace this logo with your

own. See Changing the Login Screen Logos for detailed instructions.

33. If you want to manually add customers to the Authorized Subscribers Table, click the Authorized tab.

• If you use Credit Card Services, subscribers are automatically added to the Authorized Subscribers Table after

they have signed up and paid for an access plan.

• If you do not use Credit Card Services or if you want to manually add a subscriber, click the Add button and

follow these steps:

1. Select the DHCP Address Type for the subscriber (public or private). This setting depends upon the

DHCP Server settings you configured for the AP.

2. If authorizing a user based on MAC address (in other words, the PublicSpace > AAA > Internal >

Enable User Name option is disabled), enter the MAC address of the subscriber’s wireless card in the

field provided.

3. You can leave the IP Address field blank. The AP fills in this field automatically after a subscriber logs in.

4. If authorizing a subscriber based on user name and password (in other words, the PublicSpace > AAA >

Internal > Enable User Name option is enabled), enter a user name and password for the subscriber.

NOTE

User Name and Passwords are case-sensitive.

5. Enter the subscriber’s allowed access time in the Expiration Time fields (in hours and/or minutes). If you

leave these fields blank or set them to 0, the subscriber will never time out. If you enter hours and/or

minutes, the time-out counter will begin as soon as you click OK. After the subscriber has timed out,

he/she must re-subscribe to the service.