Re: OT:Limiting number of Clients Per Access Point

Dears,

This is what I am looking for exactly.Did anyone test these commands in a
real environment?One more thing let us say that the AP is saturated, one
more client tries to join, it will get rejected due to the fact that the AP
is saturated. Will the client automatically attempt to join another AP whose
signal is lower due to the rejection message it got, or will it stick to
re-attempting the join to the same AP.

Guys I really do appreciate your help!

For autonomous AP:

AP# configure terminal
AP(config)# dot11 ssid <ssid ID>
AP(config-ssid)# accounting <AAA accounting method name>
AP(config-ssid)# max-associations <max no>
AP(config-ssid)# vlan <vlan ID>
AP(config-ssid)# exit
AP(config)# interface dot11radio 0
AP(config-if)# ssid <ssid ID>
end
wr

For WLC:

config
load-balancing status enable
load-balancing window <max no>
exit
save config

NOTE
Load balancing is not recommened when having voice over wlan clients

On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:58 PM, Cristian Matei
<cristian.matei_at_datanets.ro>wrote:

> Hi,
>
> If you only want to limit the number of clients per access point (no
> matter who the clients are), in Autonomous, under the "dot11 ssid" command
> you have a "max-associations" option to limit it; for the UWN (WLC based),
> you have this option in the configuration of each access-point (depending
> on
> the WLC version the tab may differ).
>
> Regards,
> Cristian.
>
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> Subject: Re: OT:Limiting number of Clients Per Access Point
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> Not sure how well this would work but ...
>
> Use MAC authentication and have multiple SSIDs.
>
> Deploy your wireless network as you would also do, with ~ 20% overlap.
> About 20% is standard for typical installs, however in this case you might
> need to have much more overlap to ensure good coverage.
>
> APs interfere with each other!
>
> You will also want to make sure that each neighboring AP is on a different
> channel. However ... do not use more the 3 or 4 channels across your
> network ... I have heard that this will cause problems, additional latency,
> etc ...
>
> When you do your site survey, keep moving the APs apart until you find the
> right amount of quality.
>
> Designate some clients for each SSID and spread them out to the multiple
> SSIDs on the multiple APs. This way you would only allow clients to
> connect
> to a particular SSID, you would have some overlap still.
>
> Clients always look to the best signal, and they would connect to the
> appropriate AP.
>
> With this said, I personally do not like this option so well. It adds
> complexity and in some cases, you might have poor coverage.
>
> Not doing voice are you? I would suggest to size the deployment right,
> have right gear, etc ...
>
> Another thought might be to run some clients on wireless A or G; 5Ghz
> versus
> 2.4. You can also run some clients on N and N can run on both 5Ghz or 2.4.
> This might help.
>
> If you have voice, you can also use a 7921 phone to test your network and
> perform MOS scores and site surveys. Just a thought as you get closer /
> deploy. All of this can be seen through the phone's gui.
>
> HTH,
>
> Andrew Lissitz
>
>
>
> .
> On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 3:25 AM, karim jamali <karim.jamali_at_gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > Dear Gents,
> >
> > I want to know the possibility of limiting the number of users per AP. I
> > need the solution for both the case of Controller Based AP or Autonomous
> > AP.
> > The only way I have found is through MAC authentication as in the
> > following:
> >
> > Is there a way to limit the maximum number of client devices that can
> > connect to a single Autonomous Access point?
> >
> > *A. *The default behavior of a Cisco client device is that it connects
> to
> > the AP that has best signal strength available. But you can limit the
> > clients that can connect to any particular AP through MAC authentication.
> > You need to provide the MAC address of the client to the AP so that the
> AP
> > can allow only those clients and restrict all the other clients that are
> > not
> > part of the allowed MAC address list from connecting to that particular
> AP.
> >
> > Is there an option to do this limitation without configuring MAC
> addresses
> > authentication?
> >
> > Your help is much appreciated
> >
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