Access Point Time Limitations

[1drowley]

Hi,

This is a fairly simple request, however I am having trouble implementing it..

What we want to achieve is:

The Wireless network to be available between 07:30 to 19:00 Mon to Friday.

The wireless network should not be available outside of normal working hours (above), Weekends and all (UK) public holidays.

Thanks in advance

David Rowley

[nchidamb]

Time based ACL may work for you. Here is a sample config.

In global config mode configure

time-range test

periodic daily 7:30 to 19:00 < Press Enter>

access-list 101 permit ip any any time-range test

In the above " daily " can be replaced with specific day such as " Monday, Tuesday" etc

After configuring the above go to dot11radio interface and then apply the ACL. For example,

conf t

ap(config)# interface dot11radio 0

ap(config-if)# ip access-group 101

Thus, it will allow users to access the network only during that period of the time. Another method is to use ACS server which I think is more robust and scalable. Time based ACL is not scalable.

-Nat

[1drowley]

Hi,

Yes that will do the daily 7:30 - 19:00, but what we are having trouble with is excluding the public holidays in conjunction with the config above.

Thanks!

David.

[nchidamb]

Even the ACS server do not have options that you are expecting with respect to public holidays. I'm not aware of any software that allows one to configure like the way you want for specific country. Sorry 😞

With the solution I proposed ( time based ACL ) you need to include the specific day when you have a local holiday at your place. Of course, this means manual intervention is required.

-Nat