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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. QoS The disable setting means no MAC filtering is used. 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. VLAN ID Hidden SSID 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. Enter a VLAN ID for the NWA3000-N series AP to use to tag traffic originating from this 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. Enable IntraBSS Traffic Blocking 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). Select this option to prevent crossover traffic from within the same SSID. NWA3000-N Series User's Guide 157

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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)
LABEL
DESCRIPTION