Captivo Blog
Practical guides on guest WiFi, captive portals and compliance.
Keeping Traffic Logs Is Not Enough — They Have to Be Provable
When a traffic log is finally requested, how does it prove it was not edited afterwards? Hash chains, trusted timestamps and tying an IP address to a person.
Read moreWhat Is 802.1X? Port-Based Access Control on a Corporate Network
Who does the spare socket in your meeting room let onto the network? How 802.1X ties access to an identity, assigns VLANs, and handles printers.
Read moreGiving a Vendor Access to Your Internal Systems Without a VPN
A VPN account hands a third-party vendor your whole network and never expires on its own. How to grant access to one system, for a set window, with a recording.
Read moreOPNsense Captive Portal Setup: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to set up a branded, 5651-compliant guest WiFi login page with OPNsense Captive Portal — zones, RADIUS, allowed addresses and Traffic Shaper.
Read moreMikroTik Hotspot Captive Portal Setup: A Step-by-Step Guide
How to set up a branded, 5651-compliant guest WiFi login page with MikroTik RouterOS Hotspot — RADIUS, Walled Garden, NTP and PAP/CHAP.
Read morepfSense Captive Portal Setup: Step-by-Step Guest WiFi
How to set up a captive portal for guest WiFi on pfSense — zone definition, RADIUS authentication and a branded, 5651-compliant login page.
Read moreTurkey's Law No. 5651 & Guest WiFi Logging Guide
Cafes, hotels and businesses offering guest WiFi in Turkey must keep connection logs under Law No. 5651 — who is covered, what to log, for how long.
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