Guest Network Setup

I have a Linksys EA4500 setup on my corporate network for wireless access. I have enabled the guest network and from all I can tell it's on a seperate subnet from my internal network like it should be. 192.168.x.x My internal is on a 10.x.x.x network. I conenct to the guest network using a laptop and I'm prompted for a password to get to the internet, which I like. The one issue I'm seeing is when I'm connected to the guest network I can still do an RDP session to internal resources. How is this possible if the guest network is on a seperate subnet?
I take a laptop which has not been joined to my domain, connect to the guest ssid, and then open an RPD session and enter an IP address for an internal server and it connects. Is there a setting to keep this from happening?

gv wrote:
Change the internal network to 192.168.1.*.
this might be something you have to do. by design the Guest Network should only allow internet access and with it being a "virtual network", should prevent communication with other computers in the network.

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I assume that all of your WAPs are hard wired on the network.
If.....all of your WAPs are simultaneous dual band Apple AirPort devices like an AirPort Extreme or new AirPort Express.....and.....you have firmware version 7.6.3 (now 7.6.4) installed on all the AirPorts.....and.....you use AirPort Utility 6.3.1 to configure the devices......in theory.....it should work.
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With that said, I can not find anywhere to setup the guest network???? There is no tab, Icon or option under any of the settings in the Airport Utility.
o AirPort Utility > Manual Setup > AirPort > Guest Network
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Hi Sohail,
here is the step by step procedure to configure the Web auth using cisco WLC..
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a008067489f.shtml
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069130: Feb 16 12:36:20 CST: %SW_MATM-4-MACFLAP_NOTIF: Host 0018.de81.37ed in vlan 140 is flapping between port Gi1/0/37 and port Po2
069131: Feb 16 12:37:44 CST: %SW_MATM-4-MACFLAP_NOTIF: Host 0021.5c46.12cd in vlan 140 is flapping between port Po2 and port Gi1/0/37
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900 - Management vlan
140 - secure wireless
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All the AP's were set to H-REAP local switching, native vlan 900 on the controller H-REAP page and the VLAN ID's are correct on the three SSID's I have.
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Thanks Fella5,
Been on the phone with TAC for 4 hours.
Looks like since I was running H-REAP local switching and the AP interfaces were trunked, the controller interface trunk should not have had the 140,144 and 145 vlans on them.
I now have only the management vlan (900) on the controller trunk and the native vlan is set to 900 as well....do I even need a trunk to the controller??
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Scott, welcome to the discussions!
First make sure your Radio Mode is set to "802.11n (802.11b/g compatible). The titanium powerbook is probably a "g" or "b" device so you need this setting for compatibility.
Sounds like the titanium powerbook cannot handle WPA/WPA2 security settings. Try WEP and see if that will work.
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I now have a guest account, thanks to you!
I did the factory reset and was able to set up the guest account.
There were 3 problems, all of which I was able to solve.
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Hello everyone!
The first. Sorry my english =)
I want tald you how to change guest network name in cisco (what have different name)
What we need.
1. Cisco Connect for Mac OSX (i use snow leopard and Cisco Connect for E3000)
2. Terminal
Okay. Let's go.
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Setup Guest Network with OS X Server and Airport Extreme - NEED HELP!

Hi All,
So I have a small business with a Mac Mini Server (10.6.5) and an Airport Extreme. The Airport is handling the routing and DHCP duties, while the Server is handling the DNS. The Airport is pointed to pull DNS from the Server. All internal systems work great accessing the internet and folders on the Server.
I need to setup a Guest network for internet access, so I turned this function on in the Airport Extreme. It sets up fine, but if you connect to that new Guest Network the system hangs trying to open a web page. My thinking is since the Server is the one handling the DNS it is not working for Guest computers since they are not part of our internal network. At least that is my theory, I could be wrong.
With this type of setup what do I need to modify to get this working? Anyone have any ideas?

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1) delete your custom Dns entries from the Internet settings in the APE and set two dhcp reservations for .2 and .3 (in this case my Mac mini server and my airport express)
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3) on a computer connected to the main network install wireshark and begin sniffing for packets. Connect at least one device to your guest network and look for any packets that have an ip from your guest network (usually 172.16.42.x) once you capture one of these packets expand the vlan information. This should list a vlan ID ( in my case this was 1003. I would suspect this is universal but do not know)
4) on your server open network preferences, click the gear at the bottom and click "manage virtual interfaces", add a vlan that matches the vlan ID from above. Click ok and apply your settings. The vlan interface should get an ip in the guest network range from your APE.
* if you are running lion you will need to install server admin tools before proceeding*
5) open server admin and add the dhcp service. Create an entry for your primary network (ex: 10.0.1.x) make the dhcp range one higher than the settings in step 2 ( ie: 10.0.1.4 to 10.0.1.253) assign this to the physical interface. Make sure this entry has your internal DNA servers
6) add another entry for the guest networks ip range (ex: 172.16.42.x) again set it one ip higher than step 2 ( 172.16.42.4 to 172.16.42.253) save and activate both ranges. Assign this range to the vlan interface. Make sure this entry either contains your isps dns servers or another public dns server. Turn on dhcp.
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