A company has an HP MSM solution that consists of an HP MSM Controller and controlled HP
MSM APs. An access-controlled VSC enforces HTML-based user login (Web-Auth) using the
controllers internal login pages. Many clients that will connect to this VSC are configured for Web
proxy to a server on port 8080. The network administrator has enabled the HTTP/HTTPS proxy
support feature.
Which additional step should the administrator take to help these clients log in and use the
network?
A.
Enable DNS interception.
B.
Enable redirection to the public access interface through HTTP rather than HTTPS.
C.
Change the port used for HTTP on the controller’s public access interface.
D.
Create MAC-address public access attributes for the clients with the proxy settings.
A.
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Answer is C:
The controller does make a few exceptions. It cannot redirect traffic directed to some TCP ports because it uses those ports for other purposes. Therefore, the solution fails if the client uses any of these ports for the proxy server:
21 23 25 110 443 8080 8090
If you have control over the client proxy server settings, have the proxy server use a different port. Otherwise, simply be aware of the limitation. For the final two ports, you could make the redirect work if you change the ports used by the MSM Controller’s internal login pages, which are, by default, 8080 for HTTP and 8090 for HTTPS. (The setting is in the Controller >> Public access > Web server window.) In that case, of course, the new ports that you specify could not be used by the proxy server.
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