- Cisco AP 1100 - Broadcasting 2 SSID
- Posted by kaigray@gmail.com on April 8th, 2005
Hello,
I have a Cisco AP 1100 that I would like to use on my home network.
It is currently using IOS v. 12.3(2)JA2.
I use a Tivo at home that has a wireless connection. Unfortunately the
Tivo UI doesn't allow for any authenication protocol; they simply WEP.
The best way I can think to work around this security flaw is to
create two SSIDs: The first SSID would be my regular home SSID and I
could use EAP-FAST to authenicate against the AP itself. The second
SSID would be specifically for Tivo - I could filter it's MAC address
and set Tivo to use 128-bit encryption. I understand that neither of
these two measures is robust security but I was thinking I could also
specify that the Tivo SSID could ONLY access the Tivo IP Address.
Does this sound right? Any suggestions? If this sounds okay can anyone
give me pointers on broadcasting two SSIDs. I have tried multiple
configs and I'm missing something. Any advice is greatly appreciated.
- Posted by Jeff C on April 9th, 2005
kaigray@gmail.com wrote in news:1112971971.420289.273820
@l41g2000cwc.googlegroups.com:
I is my understanding that you can only broadcast one SSID. This
could be used as the guest VLAN and clients that needed to access
the other VLAN would have to be manually configured for that SSID.
I have been wrong before,
-Jeff C
- Posted by Simon Leinen on April 11th, 2005
Jeff C writes:
A recent IOS release for the Cisco APs lifts that restriction, but
only for newer radios (not the 802.11b-only ones!), which support
broadcasting up to eight SSIDs.
There's a thread about this on a mailing list:
http://www.terena.nl/mail-archives/m...ads.html#01361
http://www.terena.nl/mail-archives/m...ads.html#01366
Simon.
- Posted by Ted Nevil on April 11th, 2005
kaigray@gmail.com wrote:
As I know, a new IOS release with this feature should come at the end of
this month.
regards
- Posted by Uli Link on April 11th, 2005
IOS 12.3-4JA is out since Apr 06.
Have it running in lab for 2 days now.
It fakes another BSSID by putting anothers Radio MAC address in the
beacons broadcasted, so it appears as two different APs.
But what the hell someone *needs* to broadcast more than one ESSID???
--
Uli
These opinions are mine. All found typos are yours.
