Chapter 12 AP Profile
Table 55 Configuration > Object > AP Profile > Add/Edit SSID Profile (continued)
LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
MAC Filtering | Select a MAC filtering profile from the list to associate with this SSID. If |
Profile | none exist, you can sue the Create new Object menu to create one. |
| MAC filtering allows you to limit the wireless clients connecting to your |
| network through a particular SSID by wireless client MAC addresses. Any |
| clients that have MAC addresses not in the MAC filtering profile of |
| allowed addresses are denied connections. |
| The disable setting means no MAC filtering is used. |
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QoS | Select a Quality of Service (QoS) access category to associate with this |
| SSID. Access categories minimize the delay of data packets across a |
| wireless network. Certain categories, such as video or voice, are given a |
| higher priority due to the time sensitive nature of their data packets. |
| QoS access categories are as follows: |
| disable: Turns off QoS for this SSID. All data packets are treated |
| equally and not tagged with access categories. |
| WMM: Enables automatic tagging of data packets. The |
| series AP assigns access categories to the SSID by examining data as it |
| passes through it and making a best guess effort. If something looks like |
| video traffic, for instance, it is tagged as such. |
| WMM_VOICE: All wireless traffic to the SSID is tagged as voice data. |
| This is recommended if an SSID is used for activities like placing and |
| receiving VoIP phone calls. |
| WMM_VIDEO: All wireless traffic to the SSID is tagged as video data. |
| This is recommended for activities like video conferencing. |
| WMM_BEST_EFFORT: All wireless traffic to the SSID is tagged as “best |
| effort,” meaning the data travels the best route it can without displacing |
| higher priority traffic. This is good for activities that do not require the |
| best bandwidth throughput, such as surfing the Internet. |
| WMM_BACKGROUND: All wireless traffic to the SSID is tagged as low |
| priority or “background traffic”, meaning all other access categories take |
| precedence over this one. If traffic from an SSID does not have strict |
| throughput requirements, then this access category is recommended. |
| For example, an SSID that only has network printers connected to it. |
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VLAN ID | Enter a VLAN ID for the |
| originating from this SSID. |
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Hidden SSID | Select this if you want to “hide” your SSID from wireless clients. This |
| tells any wireless clients in the vicinity of the AP using this SSID profile |
| not to display its SSID name as a potential connection. Not all wireless |
| clients respect this flag and display it anyway. |
| When an SSID is “hidden” and a wireless client cannot see it, the only |
| way you can connect to the SSID is by manually entering the SSID name |
| in your wireless connection setup screen(s) (these vary by client, client |
| connectivity software, and operating system). |
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Enable Intra- | Select this option to prevent crossover traffic from within the same |
BSS Traffic | SSID. |
Blocking |
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