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Chapter 12 AP Profile

NWA3000-N Series User’s Guide

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MAC Filtering

Profile

Select a MAC filtering profile from the list to associate with this SSID. If

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.

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 NWA3000-N

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.

VLAN ID Enter a VLAN ID for the NWA3000-N series AP to use to tag traffic

originating from this SSID.

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).

Enable Intra-

BSS Traffic

Blocking

Select this option to prevent crossover traffic from within the same

SSID.

Table 55 Configuration > Object > AP Profile > Add/Edit SSID Profile (continued)

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