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Select WLANs and then WLANs | WLANs from the sidebar. Create a new network and name it as shown in the figure below.

After defining the eduroam network, click on the WLAN ID number to start defining the settings for the network. Set the General settings according to the figure below, then click the Security tab.

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After this, click on the AAA Servers tab and select the RADIUS server that you defined earlier to be used in eduroam.


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.
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At this stage, click Apply. In the Advanced-tab and fill, 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".

<to be continued>