Configuring Wireless General SSID Settings
To enable wireless clients to connect to
the NetScreen-5GT Wireless security device, you must configure at
least one basic service set (BSS) that defines and controls how the
device handles traffic through a wireless interface.
You can create up to eight basic service sets,
but the device can only use a maximum of only four at one time. You
might want to configure extra service sets when your network uses
site-specific or time-specific BSSs: To enable different BSSs, bind
or unbind their corresponding SSIDs to interfaces.
A new SSID does not contain default general settings;
you must at least configure a name and select wireless interface for
the SSID before the device can handle wireless traffic for that BSS.
The general SSID settings are displayed in Table 1.
Table 1: Wireless General SSID Settings
Parameters
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Your Action
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Name
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Specify a name that uniquely identifies the BSS. The
device uses the SSID name to distinguish the interface to route wireless
traffic to. For enhanced security, do not assign the SSID a meaningful
name that an attacker might be able to determine through reconnaissance,
such as the department or location of the WAP. You can also make the
name difficult to guess by using a mix of upper- and lowercase letters,
numbers, and symbols. When the SSID name contains one or more spaces,
enclose the name within quotation marks.
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Suppressing Transmission of SSID Information
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Select so the device does not display the SSID name in
broadcasts. Because the name is not broadcast, attackers must work
harder to obtain the SSID name.
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Isolation of Clients on the Same SSID
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Select to prevent wireless clients on the same subnetwork
(SSID) from communicating directly with each other and bypassing the
security device.
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Wireless Interface
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Select the wireless interface (wireless 1 or wireless
2) that handles traffic for the SSID. The device routes all wireless
traffic with the specified SSID name through this interface.
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Published: 2009-08-20
