Wireless/Redundant Edge Services xl Module Management and Configuration Guide WS.02.xx and greater

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Web Authentication for Mobile Users
Overview
The Web-Auth Process
To provide limited network access to mobile users through Web-Auth, you
set up a Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol (DHCP) server and instruct
the users to configure their stations to receive a dynamic IP address from this
server. (This DHCP server can be an external server or the Wireless Edge
Services xl Module’s internal server.) When a mobile user tries to associate
with a wireless LAN (WLAN) that is configured for Web-Auth, the user’s
station requests an IP address from the DHCP server. (See Figure 5-1.)
Figure 5-1. The Station Receives an IP Address from a DHCP Server