Client as user or guest.
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What determines whether the client is seen as a guest or user?
Same SSID, facebbok authorization, and some are guests and others are users.
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@AAA,
when a client associates with the WiFi, it will become a user (of the WiFi).
Then the client can authorize through the portal and it will become a guest (of the hotspot).
As soon as authorization expires, the client will be a user again.
Thus, »user« is a state and to become a »guest«, every client must go through the »user« state first.
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Each SSID FreeCED user is authorized by the portal so none should be a user.
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@AAA,
when a client associates with the WiFi, it will become a user (of the WiFi).
Then the client can authorize through the portal and it will become a guest (of the hotspot).
As soon as authorization expires, the client will be a user again.
Thus, »user« is a state and to become a »guest«, every client must go through the »user« state first.
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Does "user" in the network managed by the portal have access to the Internet? Because in networks with WPA-PSK or RADIUS authorization, "user" has access to the network.
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Does "user" in the network managed by the portal have access to the Internet? Because in networks with WPA-PSK or RADIUS authorization, "user" has access to the network.
Access to the Internet (or even your LAN network) depends on the authorization mechanism you set up in your hotspot portal settings. WPA-PSK is not a hotspot authorization mechanism, but a WLAN security mode which – as such – also needs authorization (else it would be no security measure), but WPA doesn't use a hotspot portal at all.
Of course, everyone knowning the WPA key or the RADIUS passwort will gain access to the WLAN and if you don't block WLAN access to the Internet (or the LAN), then authorized people has access to it. This is not a malfunction.
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