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Dell Networking W-Series ArubaOS 6.5.x | User Guide Virtual APs | 408
Chapter 19
Virtual APs
APs advertise WLANs to wireless clients by sending out beacons and probe responses that contain the WLAN’s
SSID and supported authentication and data rates. When a wireless client associates to an AP, it sends traffic to
the AP’s Basic Service Set Identifier (BSSID) which is usually the AP’s MAC address.
In the Dell network, an AP uses a unique BSSID for each WLAN. Thus, a physical AP can support multiple
WLANs. The WLAN configuration applied to a BSSID on an AP is called a virtual AP. You can configure and apply
multiple virtual APs to an AP group or to an individual AP by defining one or more virtual AP profiles.
This chapter describes the following topics:
l Virtual AP Configuration Workflow on page 408
l Virtual AP Profiles on page 409
l Changing a Virtual AP Forwarding Mode on page 448
l Radio Resource Management (802.11k) on page 418
l BSSTransition Management (802.11v) on page 426
l Fast BSS Transition ( 802.11r) on page 426
l SSIDProfiles on page 428
l WLAN Authentication on page 436
l High-Throughput Virtual APs on page 439
l Guest WLANs on page 445
Virtual AP Configuration Workflow
The following workflow lists the tasks to configure a virtual AP that uses 802.1X authentication. Click any of the
links below for details on the configuration procedures for that task.
Using the WebUI
1. Configure your authentication servers.
2. Create an authentication server group, and assign the authentication servers you configured in step 1 to
that server group.
3. Configure a firewall access policy for a group of users
4. Create a user role, and assign the firewall access policy you created in step 3 to that user role.
5. Create an AAA profile.
a. Assign the user role defined in step 4 to the AAA profile's 802.1X Authentication Default Role
b. Associate the server group you created in step 2 to the AAA profile.
6. Create a new SSID profile
7. Create a new virtual AP profile.
8. Associate the virtual AP profile to the AAA profile you created in Step 5.
9.
Associate the virtual AP profile to the SSID profile you created in Step 6.