Customize Client Related Network Settings

Complete the Add a Network Policy task.

Use this task to define client usage parameters that control how devices in the SSID transmit data, how neighboring devices exchange information with each other, and the maximum number of clients that the SSID supports.

  1. Go to Configure > Network Policies.
  2. Select an existing policy, and then select Edit.
  3. Select Next to open the Wireless Network page.
  4. Go to Additional Settings > Optional Settings, and then select CUSTOMIZE.
  5. Go to the Client Related Network Settings section, and then configure the settings:
    • Maximum client limit: Set the maximum number of clients that can associate with an SSID on a device.
    • EAP Timeout (Enterprise Security Mode Only): During the 802.1x authentication phase, in the event of an EAP retry due to packet loss or lack of response from the client, the AP can retry the EAP request. Some clients cannot properly handle fast retry timers, so this might need adjustment to facilitate fast recovery for bad RF environments.
    • RTS threshold: The RTS (request-to-send) threshold indicates the minimum packet size to trigger an RTS/CTS (request-to-send/clear-to-send) exchange. The purpose of this exchange is to reserve the medium and thereby reduce collision interference.
    • Fragment threshold: The fragment threshold indicates the minimum packet size to begin fragmenting packets before transmitting them. If there is a high level of interference, smaller packet sizes can reduce the need to retransmit packets and improve performance.
    • DTIM settings: Extreme Networks devices include delivery traffic indication messages (DTIM) in beacons at scheduled intervals. DTIMs are included in beacons according to the DTIM period that you set. Increase the DTIM setting to improve battery life or shorten it to deliver buffered broadcast and multicast traffic more frequently.
    • Inactive client ageout: Set the length of time to age out and automatically disassociate inactive clients.
    • EAP Retries (Enterprise Security Mode Only): After the EAP timeout, authentication fails and the client tries to reconnect per this value.
    • Roaming cache update interval: An Extreme Networks AP updates its neighbors about its currently associated clients. Neighboring APs use this information to update their roaming caches—if necessary—with the most up-to-date client information from their neighboring APs.
    • Roaming cache ageout: By default, an Extreme Networks device removes an entry from its roaming cache if it is absent from 60 consecutive updates from a neighbor. You can change the number of times an entry must be absent.

Continue configuring Optional Settings in the Wireless Networks configuration window. Select SAVE OPTIONAL SETTINGS to save your changes.

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