SonicWALL 5.8.1 Manuale Utente

In this section, you will create and configure a new Virtual Access Point and associate it with 
the wireless subnet you created in 

In the left-hand menu, navigate to the Wireless > Virtual Access Point page.

Click the Add... button in the Virtual Access Points section.

Enter a default name (SSID) for the VAP. In this case we chose Campus_Faculty. This is the 
name users will see when choosing a wireless network to connect with.

Select the Subnet Name you created in 

 

from the drop-down list. In this case we chose Faculty, the name of our WLAN_Faculty subnet.

Check the Enable Virtual Access Point checkbox to enable this access point upon creation.

Check the Enable SSID Suppress checkbox to hide this SSID from users.

Click the OK button to add this VAP.

Your new VAP now appears in the Virtual Access Points list.

Click the Advanced Tab to edit encryption settings. If you created a VAP Profile in the previous 
section, select that profile from the Profile Name list. We created and choose a “Corporate-
WPA2” profile, which uses WPA2-AUTO-EAP as the authentication method. If you have not set 
up a VAP Profile, continue with steps 2 through 4. Otherwise, continue to 

In the Advanced tab, select WPA2-AUTO-EAP from the Authentication Type drop-down 
menu. This will employ an automatic user authentication based on your current RADIUS server 
settings (Set below).

In the Maximum Clients field, enter the maximum number of concurrent connections VAP will 
support.

In the WPA-EAP Encryption Settings section, enter your current RADIUS server information. 
This information will be used to support authenticated login to the wireless subnet.

Now that you have successfully set up a wireless subnet for faculty access, you can choose to 
add more custom VAPs, or to deploy this configuration to your internal wireless radio in the 

. 

Remember that more VAPs can always be added at a later time. New VAPs can then be 
deployed simultaneously by following the steps in the 

.