Before you begin
Create a Private Pre-share Key Standard Wireless Network.
About this task
When Private Client Groups (PCGs) are enabled, they can be designated as using one of
two main operating modes:
- AP-based PCG uses
unique user and shared keys. This mode supports common shared devices within
personal network spaces. It also requires room assignments for AP anchoring and
traffic tunneling.
- Key-based PCG
requires one password used by the entire device group. Key-based PCG does not
need room assignments, and no traffic tunneling is used on anchor-based
APs.
Note
Each network policy can have only one AP-based PCG wireless network (SSID), one
key-based PCG SSID, and any number of non-PCG SSIDs.
Procedure
-
Enable Private Client
Group Options.
-
Select AP-Based or
Key-Based.
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If you selected Key-Based, fill
in the following Private Client Groups Traffic Filtering options.
- Enable Broadcast
Filtering: When selected, broadcast frames are not
propagated beyond the current PCG domain.
- Enable Multicast
Filtering: When selected, multicast frames are not
propagated beyond the current PCG domain.
- Enable
MDNS (multicast DNS) Filtering - When applied,
multicast DNS frames are not forwarded outside the PCG
domain.
- Enable
SSDP (Simple Service Discovery Protocol) - When
enabled, SSDP frames are not forwarded outside of the PCG
domain.
When you select Multicast Filtering, both mDNS and SSDP filtering are
auto-selected and grayed out. If you do not select Multicast
Filtering, you can independently select mDNS and SSDP
filtering. This capability is solely dependent upon site requirements.
What to do next
Continue configuring the Standard Wireless Network.
