[HamWAN PSDR] Certificate

[Nigel Vander Houwen]

Burt,

Nobody but the network admins *needs* to use the admin portal. If you had a subnet assigned to you it would allow you as an end user to manage DNS records for that subnet, but otherwise as a regular user you don’t need to use it at all. You’ll get DHCP, and have normal network access without needing to touch it.

Nigel

> On Sep 23, 2018, at 15:33, B.J. Guillot <bj.guillot at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Sorry again for the basic question...
> 
> Is the LoTW certificate only needed for the HamWAN admin portal, or is it needed to utilize the HamWAN network itself? i.e., is using the HamWAN admin portal actually needed for a client node setup?  (i.e., will a DHCP connection work just fine, and is the portal just for static IP assignment?)  
> 
> I'm a bit unclear from the setup instructions on exactly what I'm supposed to do with the certificate after installing it into the older Opera browser.  I wasn't sure if I'm also supposed to install it somewhere into the Mikrotik modem configuration.
> 
> When I try to go to the admin portal page I still get the "Uh oh, it looks like there's something wrong with your certificate." error message even in the older Opera 12.16 browser with 0-bit SSL for authentication enabled and LoTW certificate imported (after removing the invalid root CA).  I don't know if I need to first "register" the certificate with someone, or if the portal will sense it's the first time I've tried to use that certificate and automatically create a new account.
> 
> Regards,
> Burt J. Guillot, N7CS
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