Nortel Networks 2300 Configuring a Service Profile, Disabling or Reenabling Beaconing of an Ssid

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Configuring a Service Profile

A service profile is a set of parameters that control advertisement (beaconing) and encryption for an SSID.

This section describes how to create a service profile and set SSID parameters. To configure encryption parameters, see “Configuring User Encryption” on page 191.

(To display service profile information, see “Displaying Service Profile Information” on page 286.)

To create a service profile and assign an SSID to it, use the following command:

set service-profile name ssid-name ssid-name

An SSID can be up to 32 alphanumeric characters long and cannot contain blanks.

The following command configures a service profile named corp1, and assigns SSID mycorp_rnd to it:

23x0# set service-profile corp1 ssid-name mycorp_rnd

success: change accepted.

Disabling or Reenabling Encryption for an SSID

To specify whether the SSID is encrypted or unencrypted, use the following command:

set service-profile name ssid-type [clear crypto]

The default is crypto.

Disabling or Reenabling Beaconing of an SSID

To specify whether the SSID is beaconed, use the following command:

set service-profile name beaconed {enable disable}

SSIDs are beaconed by default.

An AP radio responds to an 802.11 probe any request only for a beaconed SSID. A client that sends a probe any request receives a separate response for each of the beaconed SSIDs supported by a radio. For a nonbea- coned SSID, radios respond only to directed 802.11 probe requests that match the nonbeaconed SSID’s SSID string.

When you disable beaconing for an SSID, the radio still sends beacon frames, but the SSID name in the frames is blank.

Changing the Fallthru Authentication Type

By default, WSS Software uses Web-based AAA for users who do not match an 802.1X or MAC authentica- tion rule, and therefore fall through these authentication types. You can change the fallthru method to last-resort or none.

To change the fallthru method, use the following command:

set service-profile name auth-fallthru {last-resort none web-portal}

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