No Broadcast SSID on certain AP

WLC 4404 APs1142
I have an AP that I dont want to broadcast our SSID but I do want it their. I want it to broadcast only our guest SSID. I have both in a AP group and can see both but is it possible to disable the broadcast for our SSID but not our guest SSID?

Hi Pedro,
I believe you are confusing yourself with the 4404-100. WLC4402-25 can support up to 25 APs. You can't go more than that.
For the 4404-100, uplink port has a limit of 48(I think) APs. So if you assign one AP Manager IP address to each uplink port, theoretically, you can support almost up to 200 APs.
Hope this helps.

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Greetings from Sunny Spain 8)
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Lets be clear what a broadcast is and a beacon is ...
Aps need to beacon. If they do not beacon they dont work cause clients will not know where to find them. With that being said, if you enable 16 SSIDs you will have 16 beacons. These are virtual btw. Also they will all use medium.
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Best regards.
I have an autonomus AP Aironet 1252 (software version: 12.4(18a)JA1)
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From the command line of your AP.
Change each SSID as follows. You want to turn off "guest-mode" and enable "mbssid" at each SSID. Guest-mode will only broadcast one SSID, you must use mbssid to allow all SSIDs to broadcast.
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I created a guest wireless network on my 5508 controller (uses default a/n), and it is set to broadcast the SSID
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Two Windows laptops had an issue seeing the SSID --it wouldn't show up when they scanned for wireless networks. One of these was corrected when the machine was updated to Windows 8.1
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HI colin,
1. Did you enabled all radios ?
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Current configuration : 3867 bytes
! Last configuration change at 12:44:59 -0500 Tue Mar 9 1993
! NVRAM config last updated at 11:29:23 -0400 Sat Oct 18 2014
! NVRAM config last updated at 11:29:23 -0400 Sat Oct 18 2014
version 15.3
no service pad
service timestamps debug datetime msec
service timestamps log datetime msec
service password-encryption
hostname Cisco3702
logging rate-limit console 9
no logging console
enable secret 5 XXXXXXXXXXXX.
no aaa new-model
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clock summer-time -0400 recurring
no ip source-route
no ip cef
ip domain name mydomain.com
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dot11 activity-timeout client default 300
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dot11 arp-cache optional
crypto pki trustpoint TP-self-signed-2632604960
enrollment selfsigned
subject-name cn=IOS-Self-Signed-Certificate-2632604960
revocation-check none
rsakeypair TP-self-signed-2632604960
crypto pki certificate chain TP-self-signed-2632604960
certificate self-signed 01
username CISCO password 7 XXXXXXXX
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channel 2412
station-role root access-point
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no bridge-group 1 unicast-flooding
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speed auto
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Hi
You have to add "guest mode" command to broadcast your SSID. Also if you need WPA/TKIP support then remove version 2 keyword under SSID & add TKIP option under radio interface encryption config. Also get rid of "infrastructure SSID" command under SSID config.
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