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AT-TQ2403 - Management Software - User's Guide

 

 

Enabling or Disabling Guest Access

You can provide controlled guest access over an isolated network and a secure internal LAN on the same AT-TQ2403 Management Software.

Configuring an Internal LAN and a Guest Network

A Local Area Network (LAN) is a communications network covering a limited area, for example, one floor of a building. A LAN connects multiple computers and other network devices like storage and printers.

Ethernet is the most common technology implementing a LAN. Wi-Fi (IEEE) is another very popular LAN technology.

The AT-TQ2403 Management Software allows you to configure two different LANs on the same access point: one for a secure internal LAN and another for a public guest network with no security and little or no access to internal resources. To configure these networks, you need to provide both Wireless and Ethernet (Wired) settings.

Information on how to configure the Ethernet (Wired) settings is provided in the sections below.

(For information on how to configure the Wireless settings, see “Setting the Wireless Interface”. For an overview of how to set up the Guest interface, see “Setting up Guest Access”.)

Enabling or Disabling Guest Access and Choosing a Virtual Network

If you want to provide guest access on your AP, enable Guest Access on the Ethernet (Wired) Settings tab. If you enable Guest Access, you must choose a method of representing both an Internal and Guest Network on this access point. There is one way of doing this: virtually, by connecting the LAN port on the access point to a tagged port on a VLAN capable switch and then defining two different Virtual LANs on this Administration page. (For more information, see “Setting up Guest Access”.)

Choose virtually separate internal and guest LANs as described below.

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Guest Access

The AT-TQ2403 ships with the Guest Access feature disabled by

 

default. You can:

 

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Select Enabled to enable Guest Access.

 

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Select Disabled to disable Guest Access

 

 

 

Enabling or Disabling Virtual Wireless Networks on the

AP

If you want to configure the Internal network as a VLAN (whether or not you have a Guest network configured), you can enable "Virtual Wireless Networks" on the access point. You must enable this feature if you want to configure additional virtual networks on VLANs on the Manage > VWN tab as described in “Configuring Virtual Wireless Networks”.