Multiple SSID with one AP

[foued kh]

Hi all,

I have to connect one Acces point aironet, on lightweight mode, to deliver multile SSID in our office.

Our topology contain :

1 virtual wireless lan controller

1 aironet access point

I need that the access point will be able to deliver two SSID at the same time :

- wLAN-Employeer

- wLAN-Guess

Is it possible please ?

Regards,

[Rasika Nayanajith]

Yes this is possible. In fact this is what 99% of people doing with WLC managed APs

HTH

Rasika

[hypnotoad]

This is not a problem at all.  You  can trunk the ports to the WLC and assign different VLANs to each of your SSIDs.  Don't get too crazy with the number of SSIDs.  Two or maybe three is okay.  A large number of SSIDs will consume your airspace with beacon frames and take away from the usable bandwidth.

--Patrick

[foued kh]

Thank you hypnotoad for rsponding,

In fact, it's a virtual WLC so the port assigned to the virtual machine is configured on trunk mode. But the problem is that we can't assign multiple APs to one SSID by the GUI.

[pwwiddicombe]

Default will be to have 1 default AP group with all the AP's members.  And by default, all the AP's in that group will have all of the active SSID's on all of them.

Where it gets more involved is if you decided to create multiple AP groups, where certain AP's contain certain SSID'd - not really that difficult, but more setup (strictly on the WLC side).