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Next, click on the QoS tab and make sure that you have set the WMM Policy to either Required or Allowed. Otherwise, the higher transmission rates associated with the 802.11n-standard will not work. Then select the Advanced tab and adjust the settings as shown in the figure below. By choosing the parameter P2P Blocking Action to have the value Forward-UpStream, you can prevent WLAN clients to communicate directly, without involving the AP, as recommended in the Campus Best Practice document on "WLAN Information Security" Chapter 2.2 and 2.3. MFP Client Protection is known to have caused problems and can be disabled.

At this stage, click Apply. In the Advanced-tab, the Client Exclusion timeout value was set to 60s. While this is a suitable value, the rules for client exclusion are a bit too strict. Hence, it pays off to adjust the rules by selecting SECURITY and then Wireless Protection Policies | Client Exclusion Policies from the sidebar and uncheck all other options except for "IP Theft or IP Reuse".

These are the basic settings for the Cisco controller. More advanced settings can be found from the upcoming Campus Best Practice document "WLAN infrastructure", to be published in the first half of 2011.

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