HowTo: Captive Portal With Local Authentication on the UnifiedController

captive portal

Reading Time: 8 minutes In this post I will describe the setup of a captive portal authentication with local authentication, which means, that the accounts will be created on the controller itself. No additional software or tool’s are required. This will fit for small environments but also has its limitations. For this test, I used the latest available firmware, which … Read more

How-To: Controller Discovery

MSM Dashboard

Reading Time: 9 minutes In this post I will share my experience with controller discovery in the network. You will get many information on how the AP can discover the controller and what network requirements needs to be meet to do that. I will cover the following topics: Where to place the AP’s in the network How the discovery process … Read more

My MSM Best Practice Tips

MSM Dashboard

Reading Time: 5 minutes In this post, I will share my MSM best practice tips, when using the controller. This is not a complete list but all the stuff I do first. From time to time I will update the post or create a complete new one, to stay up to date.So, let’s start now: 1. Which firmware to … Read more

HP Cloud-Managed Networking Solution

HP Cloud Managed Networking Solution

Reading Time: 2 minutes Today, I will share some Information about the new HP Cloud-Managed Networking Solution, which will be available in this Month (21.07.2014) to all customers. This Solution will consist of a controller in the Cloud and very easy to install AP’s. The main benefit, you do not have to buy a controller, which is especially for small to medium … Read more

Move to WordPress

Reading Time: < 1 minute After 6 Month with Blogger (the Goolge blogging platform) I decided to move to my own Webspace and will from now on use WordPress for my postings. WordPress brings a lot of flexibility and I will enhance this site over time. After spending a whole day for migration, I hope that every post is migrated … Read more

Private VLAN in Comware 7

PVLAN Architecture

Reading Time: 2 minutes In Mai, I was on a proof of concept in Grenoble and one of the coolest things was the Private VLAN function in Comware 7. It was really interesting to see how it works and how simple it is to separate hosts from each other.It works with a two-tier approach. There is a primary VLAN, … Read more