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| Hotspot | Hotspot Network |
|---|---|
| Requires a router as Gateway in the LMC. | No LANCOM router as Gateway in the LMC necessary. An access point can be used as a Hotspot Gateway too. |
| The Public Spot Option is activated on the device by the LMC temporarily. | The Public Spot Option is activated on the device by the LMC temporarily (Exception access points with LCOS LX). |
| The SSID name and network name can be determined differently. | The SSID name and network name canot be determined differently. The SSID name matches the entered network name. |
| The Public Spot websites are hosted in the Public Spot Gateway. | The Public Spot websites are hosted in the LMC. |
| The Public Spot login page URL can be changed in the device configuration (Device hostname). | The Public Spot login page can be reached via the URL hotspot.lmc.de. |
| The Public Spot login page is invoked unencrypted via HTTP. | The Public Spot login page is invoked encrypted via HTTPS. |
| Public Spot users are visible in the RADIUS user table of the router and can be deleted manually. | Public Spot users are not visible in the RADIUS user table of the router / access point. Only authenticated users can be viewed (ls Status/Public-Spot/Station-Table) and also deleted (do Status/Public-spot/Delete-Station and Status/Public-spot/Cleanup-Table) via the CLI or the LCOS menu tree in WEBconfig. |
| No permanent connection to the LMC is necessary after the configuration. New users are able to login to the Public Spot without a connection to the LMC. | Requires an active connection to the LMC, as users are set up in the LMC only. Without a connection to the LMC no new users are able to login to the Public Spot. There is no restriction for users which are already authenticated. |
| The successful Public Spot configuration can be verified in the device configuration (LANconfig / WEBconfig and Detail configuration in the LMC). | The successful Public Spot configuration can only be verified in the LMC in the menu Sites → Devices.
The successful configuration can also be verified in the device configuration of LCOS devices (LANconfig / WEBconfig and detail configuration in the LMC), if an IP address from the Hotspot network is present on the device. Special case LCOS LX Access Points: The command show diag hotspot allows you to check if there are entries present in the IP tables. |
| Expiry times can be changed in the device configuration. | Expiry times cannot be changed (end devices are always authenticated for 24 hours). |
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