What is a Guest LAN?

My company is currently in the process of creating a guest wireless ssid for vendors. I have already created the VLAN on our network and configured it with an ACL so that it can only get to the internet and no where else.
I am now going through creating an interface on my lwapp controllers and there is a check box that says "Guest LAN". Now the guide that I am using to configure my controllers is for an older version of WCS (I can't find one for 5.1). And they do not check the Guest LAN.
I am just curious as to what this setting actually does.
Thanks

It has been a few months since I looked in to this and I never got around to implementing it, but I'll see if I can help any.
This "Guest LAN" allows you to use your Wireless Controllers as an anchor point for Wired Users.
When I was looking in to this, I was going to anchor a Layer 2 VLAN to an internal controller and have that controller anchor those clients to my DMZ Controller just like I do with my "wireless guest" access.
In theory it allows the Wireless Controller to pick up your Wired clients and treat them like your Wireless clients.
So, trunk an unrouted VLAN into that controller and let the controller do the dirty work....
I'm going to create a post on this in the general forum about an idea I once had with this....

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Hi,
While creating new ssid, i can see the option guest lan and wlan, whats the difference? which one is preffered?
Thanks in advance..

Hi,
I remember answering this few days and also George joined the thread.. or max week back..
Guest LAN WLAN =
1> The clients connecting to the WLAN will have a time limit on the connectivity, for example you can configure the Guest WLAN for 24 hours or something which you want..
2> I guess George pointed this in the previous thread.. Can be used for Wired Guest Users configuration as well , here is the link..
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a008070ba8f.shtml
WLAN =
Just nothing but a SSID with security which doesnt have any time limit.
which one is preffered? =
Its your network and what ever meets your requirements you can use that.. however both of them does its job with different features involved.
lemme know if this answered your question..
Regards
Surendra
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Guest LAN and DHCP Options not passing through

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Does the L3 interface on your router or L3 switch look anything like this?
interface Vlan119
description GUEST VLAN
ip vrf forwarding GUEST
ip address 172.16.254.2 255.255.252.0
ip helper-address 172.16.255.1
no ip redirects
no ip proxy-arp
glbp 119 ip 172.16.254.1
glbp 119 timers 2 7
glbp 119 priority 150
glbp 119 preempt delay minimum 600
glbp 119 authentication md5 key-string 7 1326431F1B1917232203
glbp 119 forwarder preempt delay minimum 3600
load-interval 30
end
This is an edited version of an L3 interface in a 6509 hosting a WiSM. The WiSM guest interface is in this subnet. The helper points to NAC. Clients in this subnet are NAT'd to public IPs when heading out to the Internet.

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Hi there
I am unable to configure Guest LAN as in this link
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a00808ed026.shtml
because my Cisco WLC 2112 version 7.0.240.0 does not have the option for Guest LAN. Is Guest LAN supported for WLC 2100 series? Any workarounds or suggestions?
Thanks for your help
DIego

Diego,
Wired guest access is not supported on WLC2106.
Reference:
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a00808ed026.shtml#configs
consider using a WISM, WLC4400, 3750 integrated WLC or a WLC5500

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Here is the URL for the Cisco Guest Access Using the Cisco Wireless LAN Controller which will help you :
http://www.cisco.com/en/US/docs/wireless/technology/guest_access/technical/reference/4.0/GAccess.html

How to set up a guest LAN? (small business, simple environment)

First before getting into my actual post, please allow me to briefly express my sincere aggravation at this Cisco website for it's lack of proper IE 11 support. When I try to create a forum post, well, there is no way to do it. The old Create a Discussion link is gone (actually when I log into my profile, the entire Actions pane is gone). The Ask a Question thing you first see is terrible, it doesn't support IE 11 apparently because the message body field is just gone. I can put a Title, and tags, but there is no field. there's also no compatibility mode button anywhere in the IE 11 interface one this site. I was lucky in that the Actions pane shows up when you click on another person's post. I don't think Cisco realizes how absolutely annoying that kind of thing is.
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Here are some suggestions regarding the IE11 issue from the support team:
How to off compatibility mode on IE 11 by following the instructions given on the link below:
Assuming its IE11 on Win 7. http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-11-win-7
if not use this link http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/internet-explorer/use-compatibility-view#ie=ie-11
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Cindy
Cisco Small Business Community Manager
www.cisco.com/go/smallbizsupport
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What's the maximum LAN speed with the Thunderbolt to Gigabit Ethernet Adapter on my MacBook Pro?

While I was at Yodobashi Camera yesterday, I got a Thunderbolt to Gigabit ethernet adapter for my MacBook Pro. I figure, since I'm paying for the high speed fiber optic (Sony Nuro), why limit my self to wi-fi speeds at home?
Before connecting the adapter, via wi-fi it the speed was 143.8 Mbps down and 181.5 Mbps up.
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I'm certainly happy with the speed, but since Sony Nuro is supposed to be 2 Gbps down and 1 Gbps up I was wondering what the maximum possible is with this computer and adapter. Before asking the provider I was curious what the maximum specs where.
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If you hooked better/ different hardware up you could probably push those speeds around your network too. The trouble is that most residential hardware is gigabit ethernet not fibre. Fibre cards & cable are expensive in comparison.
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Those speeds sound nice, this bottleneck will mean that other devices on you network can't choke up the whole connection & make other users sad.

What is in 'Guest' folders?

I am trying to clean out clutter from my computer and came upon the 'Users' folder in the hard drive. Within the Users folder there are three folders: Guest then me (my name and icon of a house) then Shared. I clicked on Guest folder and there are several folders with seemingly generic names. (See screenshot). I tried opening them and it says I do not have permission to open them. What's up with that? I'm the only one who uses this computer. What is in them and why can't I access them and can I delete them? Thank you.

They are there to allow someone temporary access to your computer but limits that access to the Shared folder. It's there for a purpose, and it is not intended to be deleted, so please leave it alone.

DHCP issues for Wired Guest LAN

Hi Everyone,
I've a 1751 acting as a DHCP server for client PCs on a guest network A.B.8.x (using an Anchor controller) on the DMZ of my firewall. The 1751 reports the following
Nov 30 15:35:45: DHCPD: DHCPDISCOVER received from client 0100.1708.37a3.55 through relay A.B.7.y.
Nov 30 15:42:41: DHCPD: there is no address pool for A.B.7.y.
I'd tied my guest vlan and corresponding DHCP scope on the router to A.B.8.x, but as A.B.7.x is the DHCP relay for the Anchor controller I don't understand why the DHCP server on the router is not doing what I expected it to.
As ever any help will be appreciated.
Many Thanks
Scott

Hi Cristian,
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What are the guests on Visual Admin- security provider- user logon sessions

I see many guests on there.
What are they corresponding to?
Thanks!

I'm not sure but check who is associated with guest security role.
Also check this link: http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04/helpdata/en/77/b7013f9ea7d861e10000000a114084/frameset.htm
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What is the "Guest" on Visual Admin's- security provider- login sessions ?

If I get into the Visual Administrator -> security provider->login sessions, I see many users called "Guest" there.
Could you help map those users to actual services.
Also there could be many users called "Administrator" , how to map them to actual services?
Thanks a lot!

This might be helpful to understand the role of Guest user.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw04s/helpdata/en/9f/d770424edcc553e10000000a1550b0/frameset.htm
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Wired guest lan authentication through NGS

Hello Guys,
We have 5508 controller running ver 7.2.110.0.We have configured wireless guest and wired guest WLAN profiles and assosicated necessary dynamic interfaces to it. The authentication for both wireless and wired guest is through Cisco NGS[NAC]. I have configured Webauth and added the server in the security tab for authentication. I have guest user accounts created in NGS, if I use wirless guest the auth works perfect. But the same credentials is not working with wired guest. Any advice on this issue would be really helpful
Regards
Krishna

Hey Scott,
Yes NGS is working as Radius. However I haven't checked on WLC neither NGS log to see if there is any but let me look into that. No other names also doesn't work. I did run a debug on WLC while the user was authenticating below is the output
Output of debug for wireless user where I am getting Accept message for auth at the end
User IP ADDR - 172.22.207.157
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00:23:14:ec:3d:38 Successful transmission of Authentication Packet (id 190) to 194.156.169.111:1812, proxy state 00:23:14:ec:3d:38-00:01
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000000: 01 be 00 a2 cd 8f 91 44 a2 4f 85 f1 04 f7 14 9a .......D.O......
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000010: d0 3e 42 94 01 1b 6d 61 68 65 62 6f 6f 62 2e 6b .>B...maheboob.k
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000020: 68 61 6e 40 61 6d 61 64 65 75 73 2e 63 6f 6d 02 [email protected].
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000030: 12 34 fc 96 01 47 ed 5e d3 8d 08 4e 72 ce 1d b5 .4...G.^...Nr...
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000040: da 06 06 00 00 00 01 04 06 ac 16 cf 83 05 06 00 ................
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000050: 00 00 0d 20 0b 42 4c 52 57 4c 43 4f 30 31 3d 06 .....BLRWLCO01=.
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000060: 00 00 00 13 1a 0c 00 00 37 63 01 06 00 00 00 01 ........7c......
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000070: 1f 10 31 37 32 2e 32 32 2e 32 30 37 2e 31 35 37 ..172.22.207.157
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000080: 1e 10 31 37 32 2e 32 32 2e 32 30 37 2e 31 33 31 ..172.22.207.131
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 00000090: 50 12 ef 00 53 8b 39 31 14 93 b3 82 1c f5 b5 51 P...S.91.......Q
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:44:29.940: 000000a0: 82 45                                             .E
*radiusTransportThread: Aug 20 09:44:30.516: 00000000: 02 be 00 1a 0c 8e d4 54 91 55 d6 ae b2 91 05 6e .......T.U.....n
*radiusTransportThread: Aug 20 09:44:30.516: 00000010: 93 f9 4b 7e 1b 06 00 21 70 70                    ..K~...!pp
*radiusTransportThread: Aug 20 09:44:30.517: ****Enter processIncomingMessages: response code=2
*radiusTransportThread: Aug 20 09:44:30.517: ****Enter processRadiusResponse: response code=2
*radiusTransportThread: Aug 20 09:44:30.517: 00:23:14:ec:3d:38 Access-Accept received from RADIUS server 194.156.169.111 for mobile 00:23:14:ec:3d:38 receiveId = 0
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User IP ADDR - 172.22.207.151
5.338: 00:26:b9:e0:36:a6 Successful transmission of Authentication Packet (id 188) to 194.156.169.111:1812, proxy state 00:26:b9:e0:36:a6-00:01
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000000: 01 bc 00 a2 2c fe c1 97 a7 d1 25 a0 59 34 89 38 ....,.....%.Y4.8
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000010: c1 be 59 f3 01 1b 6d 61 68 65 62 6f 6f 62 2e 6b ..Y...maheboob.k
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000020: 68 61 6e 40 61 6d 61 64 65 75 73 2e 63 6f 6d 02 [email protected].
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000030: 12 37 c7 5c 52 27 41 5b 0d 60 98 70 76 3b b3 ba .7.\R'A[.`.pv;..
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000040: f5 06 06 00 00 00 01 04 06 ac 16 cd 74 05 06 00 ............t...
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000050: 00 00 0d 20 0b 42 4c 52 57 4c 43 4f 30 31 3d 06 .....BLRWLCO01=.
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000060: 00 00 00 0f 1a 0c 00 00 37 63 01 06 00 00 02 02 ........7c......
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000070: 1f 10 31 37 32 2e 32 32 2e 32 30 37 2e 31 35 31 ..172.22.207.151
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000080: 1e 10 31 37 32 2e 32 32 2e 32 30 35 2e 31 31 36 ..172.22.205.116
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 00000090: 50 12 36 60 54 47 0b 84 02 5c 0b da 19 a1 05 eb P.6`TG...\......
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:15.338: 000000a0: af 2b                                             .+
*aaaQueueReader: Aug 20 09:35:17.053: AuthenticationRequest: 0x2ab12b50

WLC - Layer 3 Wired guest lan ?

Hello
Has anyone been able to do this with a WLC, configuration guidlines say :"
"Wired guest access ports must be in the same Layer 2 network as the foreign controller."
Anyone know if Cisco is working on making this solution work on L3 aswell ?
Regards,
Gk

Hi gudmundurk,
I'm not sure if they would consider it worth developing as you would have to create a tunnel between the guest vlan's gateway and the subnet that the controller is on to keep your network secure anyway. Unless someone out there knows..........
Regards
Scott

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