A user is configuring a wireless access point and wants to prevent any neighbors from discovering the network. what action does the user need to take?

Module Quiz - WLAN Configuration 1. A user is configuring a wireless access point and wants to prevent any neighbors from discovering the network. What action does the user need to take? - DISABLE SSID BROADCAST 2. When a wireless network in a small office is being set up, which type of IP addressing is typically used on the networked devices? - PRIVATE 3. A user has just purchased a generic home router and would like to secure it. What should be done to help secure the wireless home router? - CHANGE THE DEFAULT ADMINISTRATOR PASSWORD 4. Which protocol could be used by a company to monitor devices such as a wireless LAN controller (WLC)? - SNMP 5. When configuring a Cisco 3500 series wireless LAN controller (WLC) for a WPA2 Enterprise WLAN, what has to be created on the WLC before creating the new WLAN? - A VLAN FOR THE WIRELESS NETWORK 6. What is a DHCP scope as it relates to a WLAN configured on the WLC controller? - A POOL OF IP ADDRESS FOR WLAN CLIENTS 7. Why would a technician configure a passphrase for a WLAN on a wireless router?

A neighbor has kindly named his unprotected wireless network after my own. I’m not sure why but it must be intentional since my network name is rather contorted. I immediately changed my network’s SSID and increased the security level to WPA. However, as the neighbor’s network has a strong signal and is unprotected, my laptop insisted on logging on to it until I realized what was going on and deleted it from the preferred nets list. However, I would feel safer if I could simply block the said network altogether. Is that possible? By the way, could this be what I think it is? The neighbor setting up an unprotected network with the same name as mine in the hope that my computer would connect to his net if mine happened to be down? This is a very interesting scenario. On the surface, it certainly feels like your neighbor is up to something. Exactly what is difficult to say, but I think you’re wise to be very cautious. While I wouldn’t call it “blocking” the neighbor’s Rename and protect You’ve already taken the first steps. Step 1 is to rename your wireless access point. Exactly how you do that will vary, depending on what brand/model of access point or Step 2 is to make sure your wireless access point has WPA2 enabled, with a good password. Once again, exactly how you set this will vary based on your specific device. This should make it impossible for anyone without your specific wireless password to connect to your network. Control your own access The next step I would take...

Configuring a Wireless Access Point - dummies The software configuration for an access point is a little more involved, but still not very complicated. It's usually done via a Web interface. To get to the configuration page for the access point, you need to know the access point's IP address. Then, you just type that address into the address bar of a browser from any computer on the network. Multifunction access points usually provide DHCP and NAT services for the networks and double as the network's gateway router. As a result, they typically have a private IP address that's at the beginning of one of the Internet's private IP address ranges, such as 192.168.0.1 or 10.0.0.1. Consult the documentation that came with the access point to find out more. Basic configuration options When you access the configuration page of your wireless access point on the Internet, you have the following configuration options that are related to the wireless access point functions of the device. Although these options are specific to this particular device, most access points have similar configuration options. • Enable/Disable: Enables or disables the device's wireless access point functions. • SSID: The Service Set Identifier used to identify the network. Most access points have well-known defaults. You can talk yourself into thinking that your network is more secure by changing the SSID from the default to something more obscure, but in reality, that only protects you from first-grade hac...

In this article Applies to: Windows Server 2022, Windows Server 2019, Windows Server 2016 This is a companion guide to the Windows Server® 2016 Core Network Guide. The Core Network Guide provides instructions for planning and deploying the components required for a fully functioning network and a new Active Directory® domain in a new forest. This guide explains how to build upon a core network by providing instructions about how to deploy Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.1X-authenticated IEEE 802.11 wireless access using Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol – Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol version 2 (PEAP-MS-CHAP v2). Because PEAP-MS-CHAP v2 requires that users provide password-based credentials rather than a certificate during the authentication process, it is typically easier and less expensive to deploy than EAP-TLS or PEAP-TLS. Note In this guide, IEEE 802.1X Authenticated Wireless Access with PEAP-MS-CHAP v2 is abbreviated to “wireless access” and “WiFi access.” About this guide This guide, in combination with the prerequisite guides described below, provides instructions about how to deploy the following WiFi access infrastructure. • One or more 802.1X-capable 802.11 wireless access points (APs). • Active Directory Domain Services (AD DS) Users and Computers. • Group Policy Management. • One or more Network Policy Server (NPS) servers. • Server certificates for computers running NPS. • Wireless client compute...

Overview The Wireless> Configure > Access Control page is used to configure per-SSID Access Control settings such as association security settings, splash page settings, and client addressing options. This article is designed to mirror the Access Control page andgoes into detail about every option available from top to bottom. Network Access is defined on a per-SSID basis, the currently selected SSID can be verified or changed by checking the SSID dropdown menu under the Access Control header at the top of the page. Password An SSID with a Password (a passphrase) requires an end-user to enter a pre-defined password into the wireless device to associate to the SSID. All wireless devices connecting to the SSID must use the same password . Two password formats are supported: • ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange). Passwords can include uppercase and lowercase letters (A-Z, a-z), numbers (0-9), and special characters and must be between 8 and 63 characters. Forexample: Secure_Tree@2023 • Hex (hexadecimal) When using a hexadecimal number for a password, the input is case-insensitive, and must be exactly 64 digits long. For example: 1234123412341234123412341234123412341234123412341234123412341234 Note: There is no need to add 0x to indicate that the password is hexadecimal.Meraki Dashboard automatically detects the password format. If the password is between 8 and 63 characters, the format is assumed to be ASCII. The format is considered hex if a password i...

Authentication Types for Wireless Devices Table Of Contents Authentication Types for Wireless Devices This module describes how to configure authentication types for wireless devices in the following sections: • • • Understanding Authentication Types This section describes the authentication types that are configured on the access point. Authentication types are tied to the Service Set Identifiers (SSIDs) that are configured for the access point. If you want to serve different types of client devices with the same access point, configure multiple SSIDs.. Before a wireless client device can communicate on your network through the access point, it must authenticate to the access point by using open or shared-key authentication. For maximum security, client devices should also authenticate to your network using MAC-address or Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) authentication. Both of these authentication types rely on an authentication server on your network. Note By default, the access point sends reauthentication requests to the authentication server with the service-type attribute set to authenticate-only. However, some Microsoft IAS servers do not support the authenticate-only service-type attribute. Changing the service-type attribute to login-only ensures that Microsoft IAS servers recognize reauthentication requests from the access point. Use the dot11 aaa authentication attributes service-type login-only global configuration command to set the service-type attri...