Re: Cisco 1231 wirless & visitor containment

On Sep 26, 4:22 pm, "P.Schuman" <pschuman_no_spam...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
One of my biz colleages has a Cisco 1231 wireless AP that they currently use
for the computers in the office.
They would like to have a separate network configured that would allow them
to grant access to visitors,
but only allow them to surf the web and not see or be able to touch their
other machines.
Is this possible with this equipment? What is this commonly called.
If so, any suggestions on how to accomplish this would be appreciated.
If not, what would they need to implement this.

Often referred to as " guest Internet access"

The Cisco AP1231 is able to support this

It is implemented by having a separate wireless identification code
for guest use ( called an SSID) that has no authentication requirement
(called open authentication). This SSID is mapped to its own VLAN thus
separating guest traffic from other traffic. This guest VLAN would
then need to be handled by a layer 3 switch or router that would use
policy based routing to ensure all the guest VLAN traffic is only
routed to/from Internet.


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