Captive Portal is used frequently in a campus AP environment to provide wireless access for guest users. The same functionality can be extended to the Virtual Branch Networks (VBN) environment. Typically, a wireless SSID (virtual AP) used for guest access in a Remote AP (RAP) is configured in bridge mode (traffic routed locally). However, the Aruba captive portal is hosted on the controller only. Therefore, an user associated to an SSID in bridge mode (forwarding mode) will not be able to reach the captive portal pages hosted on the controller. In order to get around this, the SSID must be set-up in split-tunnel mode. This article describes how a guest captive portal can be set-up on a RAP at the same time not compromising security of corporate-bound traffic. Details Below please find the detailed configuration steps (using CLI) for setting up a captive portal for a guest SSID on a RAP. This set-up has the following characteristics: 1) The Guest SSID d
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