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Kiwire 3.0 Administrator - Device & Controller Setup Guide

Cisco Meraki Cloud Controller Configuration for Kiwire Hotspot

A. Access control configuration

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  1. Login to your Meraki cloud controller.

  2. Go to Wireless > Access control tab

  3. Select SSID for captive portal

  4. Select Open (noencryption) for Association requirements

  5. Select Disable Mandatory DHCP for Mandatory DHCP

  6. Select Sign-on with my RADIUS server under Splash Page

  7. Select Block all access until sign-on is complete for Captive

    portal strength

  8. Select Walled garden is enabled for Walled garden

  9. Wall garden ranges

    • fonts.googleapis.com

    • fonts.googlestaic.com

    • Kiwire-ip address

    • social networks hostname or ip addresses (optional)

  10. Select Allow simultaneous devices per user for Simultaneous logins

  11. Select Default for your settings: Restricted for Controller disconnection behaviour

  12. RADIUS for splash page

    • Host: Kiwire-hostname or Kiwire-ip

    • Port: 1812

    • Secret: create a secret

  13. RADIUS accounting servers is enabled (refer Cisco Meraki support is this option is not available)

    • Host: Kiwire-hostname or Kiwire-ip

    • Port: 1813

    • Secret: create a secret key phrase

  14. Enable data-carrier detect (DCD) is disabled

  15. Select Deny access for Failover policy

  16. Select Strict priority order for Load balancing policy

  17. Select Bridge mode: Make clients part of the LAN for Client IP

    assignment.

  18. Select Disable Bonjour Forwarding for Bonjour forwarding

  19. Enable VLAN tagging if needed and insert VLAN ID

  20. Select Disabled: Do not assign group policies automatically for Assign group policies by device type

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21. If use NAT Mode, Select disabled content for Content filtering

22. Save Changes

B. Splash Page configuration

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  1. Go to Wireless > Splash Page

  2. Select SSID

  3. Use Custom splash URL and insert http://<kiwire-ip>/login/meraki

  4. Save changes.

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C. SSID configuration

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  1. Go to Wireless > SSIDs

  2. Enable captive portal SSID and create SSID

  3. Save Changes

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Part 2: Kiwire configuration


1. Adding NAS into Kiwire

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  • Navigate to Devices > Devices > Add Device

  • Device Type → Controller

  • Vendor → Meraki

  • Identity → AP mac address ( delimiter colon and small letter format eg : 0c:51:aa:52:e4 )

  • IP Address → Cisco Meraki Controller IP address or hostname o Address → optional

  • Username → optional

  • Password → optional

  • Shared Secret Key → Secret key phrase set at Meraki cloud

  • COA Port → 3799

  • Description → optional

  • Monitoring Method → optional

  • Community → optional

  • Snmp version → optional

  •  Create→ to save

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