An Example for theFree Authentication Policy Configuration on EAP (Cluster mode)?

Free authentication policy is defined for user access control. It permits the specified IP address/subnet and port be accessed by the client specified by IP address/subnet or MAC address without authentication such as portal, WPA-Enterprise. You can set up several items to customize flexible authentication policy in your network.

For example, we need to let several clients to access resources in a specified subnet through port 80 freely. The subnet of clients is 192.168.0.0/24 and the subnet resources is 10.0.0.0/28.

Step 1

Go to Wireless → Portal. 

Click  in Free Authentication Policy section below Portal Configuration.

Then the page will show as below

Step 2

Enter “policy1” as a policy name in the Policy Name item.

Step 3

Fill the Source IP Range with 192.168.0.0/24 so that all clients in this subnet can access the specified resources.

Step 4

Fill the Destination IP Range with 10.0.0.0/28 so that the specified clients can access this subnet freely. Note the VLSM (Variable Length Subnet Mask) is supported.

Step 5

Leave the Source MAC empty otherwise the Source IP Range won’t take effect.

Step 6

Specify the Destination Port as 80 so that only 80 port can be accessed. Note leave it empty means all ports can be accessed.

Step 7

Tick the Enable of Status to enable this policy. And click OK button to finish it.

The clients in 192.168.0.0/24 can access the resources in subnet 10.0.0.0/28 through 80 port without authentication now.