Disabling Captive Portal

By default, Captive Portal is disabled. If the Captive Portal feature is disabled and the switch receives a redirect URL attribute from the RADIUS server as part of the Access-Accept, it will view the redirect as an error. The authentication success will be overridden, the session will be flushed, and the switch will send the Accounting Start and Accounting Stop messages to indicate the client is no longer authenticated.

The Captive Portal feature may be disabled while there are in flight authentication requests. These are authentication sessions that have not finished the final authentication with the switch. The switch flushes all sessions with a redirect URL associated with them when Captive Portal is disabled.

Fully authenticated sessions are not impacted when Captive Portal is disabled. If CPPM deems these sessions to be invalid, a RADIUS Disconnect can be sent to flush all these sessions.