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Cisco WAP551 and Guest Users

Hello all,
I have three Cisco WAP551 setup in a cluster mode. Everything is working fine.
Now the owners want to allow the patients access to the wireless.
I want to set these units up to allow Guest access to just get to the internet and nothing on the network. Also I would like to give the guest users a separate IP address range that is not on the LAN.
Is this possible? If so how do you achieve this with these units?
Thanks,
Kelly W.

John

I've not used a WAP 551, but on most CIsco WAPs, you can have multiple VLANS with their own SSIDs

I do this on aironet 1220 series AP's

On the router set up two VLANs with their own DHCP scopes. One is the LANB on say 192.168.1.x and the other is for guest internet access on say 192.168.50.x

Then on the ap, set up two VLANS to match.

then create 2 SSIDs, one for each VLAN.

John

Cisco WAP200's allow 4 vlans, Aironet 1200 series usually allow 16. 4400 is crap and only allows one, the 4410 allows a few. you will need to look up the 551 and see what it will support

K_Wilke

ASKER

Well that is going to be a challenge since the DHCP is coming from my Windows server.
Can you have the router (firewall in this case) have one VLAN with a DHCP scope of something other than the IP address for the LAN and then use the same VLAN number for the guest SSID?

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K_Wilke

ASKER

That worked beautifully!

John

It always makes me happy to help :-)