Wireless (for ISA550W and ISA570W only)
Configuring the Basic Settings
Cisco ISA500 Series Integrated Security Appliances Administration Guide
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Bandwidth Channel:
Choose 20 MHz channel bonding (spacing), or choose
Auto
to let the system determine the optimal channel spacing to use. This
setting is specific to 802.11n traffic.
•
Extension Channel:
Choose either Lower or Upper if you choose Auto
channel spacing.
•
Unscheduled Automatic Power Save Delivery (U-APSD):
Click
Enable
to
enable U-APSD to conserve the power, or click
Disable
to disable it.
•
SSID Isolation:
Click
Enable
to enable the SSID Isolation feature so that the
SSIDs will be unable to see each other when the SSIDs belong to the same
VLAN, or click
Disable
to disable it. When you enable SSID Isolation (among
the SSIDs), traffic on one SSID will not be forwarded to any other SSID.
STEP 3
In the
SSIDs
area, all predefined SSIDs on the security appliance appear in the
table. You can configure the following properties for each predefined SSID:
•
Enable:
Check this box to enable a SSID, uncheck this box to disable a SSID.
By default, all SSIDs are disabled.
•
SSID Name:
Enter the name for a SSID.
•
SSID Broadcast:
Check this box to broadcast the SSID in its beacon frames.
All wireless devices within range are able to see the SSID when they scan
for available networks. Uncheck this box to prevent auto-detection of the
SSID. In this case, users must know the SSID to set up a wireless connection
to this SSID.
NOTE:
Disabling SSID Broadcast is sufficient to prevent clients from
accidentally connecting to your network, but it will not prevent even the
simplest of attempts by a hacker to connect or monitor unencrypted traffic.
Suppressing the SSID broadcast offers a very minimal level of protection on
an otherwise exposed network (such as a guest network) where the priority
is making it easy for clients to get a connection and where no sensitive
information is available.
•
Security Mode:
Displays the security mode currently used for the SSID. To
configure the security settings for the SSID, click the
Edit
(pencil) icon. See
Configuring Wireless Security, page 186
.
•
MAC Filtering:
Shows if the MAC Filtering feature is enabled or disabled on
the SSID. MAC Filtering can permit or block access to the SSID by the MAC
(hardware) address of the requesting device. To configure the MAC Filtering
settings for the SSID, click the
Edit
(pencil) icon. See