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Scheduling Weight: 5
The weight defines a preference for forwarding traffic. It does not specify a percentage or an amount. Its value is relative
to the weights of QoS schedules in other user profiles in the same WLAN policy.
Because wireless access for guests is mainly a convenience and not a necessity, you assign it a weight that is low in
comparison to the weights of other user profiles to give guests the lowest priority. In this example, 5 is used. Because
this setting is a relative weight, modify it as necessary based on the weights of the other user profiles present.
NOTE: Although SmartPath APs apply policing at all times, they only apply scheduling weights when usage is at maximum
capacity.
SSID
You can provide visitors with secure but unregistered network access by issuing them a preshared key to use when associating
with the guest SSID. A receptionist can provide visitors with the preshared key along with access instructions upon their arrival, as
shown in Figure 9-16. This approach provides visitors with secured network access by using WPA or WPA2 with preshared keys
and TKIP or CCMP (AES) encryption.
Receptionist
The guest SSID provides secure network access for visitors. Also, by linking visitors to the guest SSID, you can differentiate them
from employees—who associate with other SSIDs—so that you can apply one group of settings for visitors and another for
employees. In addition, by assigning employees and guests to different VLANs, you can separate their traffic.
To create an SSID for guest access, click "Configuration > SSIDs > New," enter the following, leave all other values at their default
settings, and then click "Save:"
Profile Name: guest
SSID: guest
Description: SSID for registering company guests
SSID Access Security: WPA/WPA2 PSK (Personal)
Use Default WPA/WPA2 PSK Settings: (select)
Chapter 9: Common Configuration Examples
Visitor
Visitor's Laptop
The visitor enters the
preshared key
"guest123" when
forming an association
with the SmartPath AP
using the SSID "guest".
Figure 9-16. Guest access using a preshared key.
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