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Chapter 4 Tutorials

NWA3000-N Series User’s Guide

7 The Edit Radio Profile window opens.

7a Activate: Select this to make the radio profile active.

7b MBSSID Settings: Select an entry to change it to a drop-down list. Set #1,

to the staff SSID profile and #2 to the guest SSID profile. These are the two

profiles you created in steps 3 to 5 of this procedure.

7c Click OK to save these settings.

4.2 Rogue AP Detection

Rogue APs are wireless access points interacting with the network managed by the

NWA3000-N series AP but which are not under the control of the network

administrator. In short, they are a security risk because they circumvent network

security policy. AP detection only works when at least 1 AP is configured for

Monitor mode.

The following are some suggestions on monitor AP placement:

• Neighboring companies that both support wireless network. If you can detect

your neighbor’s APs and you know they are ‘friendly’, you can add them to the

friendly exception list.

• Reception areas. If a reception area has a high volume of visitor traffic, it might

be useful to see if anyone is setting up their wireless device as an AP.

• High security areas. An AP set to Monitor mode will let you see if anyone sets up

an unauthorized AP that could potentially compromise your security.