Cisco WAP571, Administration Manual

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Wireless
Networks
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If you select a security mode other than None, additional fields appear. We
recommend using WPA Personal or WPA Enterprise as the authentication
type as it provides stronger security protection. Use Static WEP or Dynamic
WEP only for legacy wireless computers or devices that do not support WPA
Personal/Enterprise. If you need to set security as Static WEP or Dynamic
WEP, configure Radio as 802.11a or 802.11b/g mode (see
Radio ). The
802.11n mode restricts the use of Static or Dynamic WEP as the security
mode.
• MAC Filtering —Specifies whether the stations that can access this VAP are
restricted to a configured global list of MAC addresses (see MAC Filtering ).
You can select one of these types of MAC filtering:
- Disabled —Do not use MAC filtering.
- Local —Use the MAC Authentication list that you configure on the MAC
Filtering page.
- RADIUS —Use the MAC Authentication list on an external RADIUS server.
• Channel Isolation —Enables and disables station isolation.
• When disabled, wireless clients can communicate with one another normally
by sending traffic through the WAP device.
- When enabled, the WAP device blocks communication between
wireless clients on the same VAP. The WAP device still allows data traffic
between its wireless clients and wired devices on the network, across a
WDS link, and with other wireless clients associated with a different VAP,
but not among wireless clients.
NOTE
Channel isolation is applicable to the clients connected to the same VAP of a single
AP, but not to the clients connected to the same VAP of different APs. So the clients
connected to same VAP of a single AP fail to ping each other and the clients
connected to same VAP of different APs can ping each other successfully.
• Band Steer —Enables band steer when both the radios are up. The n-
bandwidth of the radio is not considered for bandsteering. Even if the 5-GHz
radio happens to be using 20-MHz bandwidth, once bandsteering is
configured, the AP tries to steer clients to the 5-GHz radio.
STEP 5
Click Save . The changes are saved to the Startup Configuration.