Multiple external auth URL from anchor controller with same SSID

Matthew Sullivan — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 12:26:43 GMT

Hi,

We are currently looking into deploying a guest network across our site. We have all of our AP's assigned to different groups with a different WLAN profile (ID's >16) allocated to each group.

Our configuration consists of two 5508 foreign controllers in HA and two independent 5508 anchor controllers.

We have configured the profiles on both foreign and anchor controllers:

ID	Profile Name
17	GUEST_Corridors
18	GUEST_Ward_Areas
19	GUEST_Outpatients
20	GUEST_Emergency
21	GUEST_Surgical

All of the profiles have the same SSID. The configuration works in the sense that users can connect to the wireless and get IP Address etc.

However, I am finding that when the connection passes to the anchor controller, it will always use the first profile it finds based on SSID.

Does this do this by design?

The aim of this is to allow the external authentications to identify the areas which the client connected.

Thanks,

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Multiple external auth URL from anchor controller with same SSID