Rockwell Automation 1783-WAPxxx Stratix 5100 Wireless Access Point User Manual User Manual

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Rockwell Automation Publication 1783-UM006A-EN-P - May 2014

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Configuring Multiple SSIDs

Chapter 8

7. (Optional) Designate the SSID as your access point guest-mode SSID.

The access point includes the SSID in its beacon and allows associations
from client devices that don’t specify an SSID.

guest-mode

8. This command controls the SSID that access points and bridges use when

associating with one another. A root access point only lets a repeater access
point to associate by using the infrastructure SSID.

A root bridge only lets a non-root bridge to associate by using the
infrastructure SSID. Repeater access points and non-root bridges use this
SSID to associate with root devices.

The access point and bridge GUI requires the configuration of
infrastructure-ssid for repeater, and non-root bridge roles. It is not
mandatory to configure infrastructure SSID for workgroup bridge roles.
However, if you use CLI to configure the device role, you don’t have to
configure an infrastructure SSID unless multiple SSIDs are configured on
the radio. If multiple SSIDs are configured on the radio, you must use the

infrastructure-ssid

command to specify the SSID the non-root

bridge uses to connect to the root bridge.

However, from 12.4(21a)JA1 and 12.3(8)JEC release onwards, repeaters
don’t associate with bridges when infrastructure-ssid is not configured
irrespective of the presence of single or multiple SSIDs.

infrastructure-ssid [optional]

9. Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface that you want to

assign to the SSID.

interface dot11radio { 0 | 1 }

The 2.4 GHz radio and the 2.4 GHz 802.11n radio is 0.
The 5 GHz radio and the 5 GHz 802.11n radio is 1.

10. Assign the global SSID that you created in

step 2

to the radio interface.

ssid ssid-string

11. Return to privileged EXEC mode.

end

12. (Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.

copy running-config startup-config

IMPORTANT

You use the

ssid

command authentication options to configure an

authentication type for each SSID. See

Configure an Access Point as a Local

Authenticator on page 319

for instructions on configuring authentication

types.

When you enable guest SSID mode for the 802.11g radio it applies to the
802.11b radio as well because 802.11b and 802.11g operate in the same
2.4Ghz band.

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