Question about wireless service for employees and guests 1

[PPettit]

I'm on the verge of buying my first SonicWall device and was wondering if someonecould give me some information regarding how the SonicWall wireless setup works.

Say I've got an NSA 240 with a single Wireless-N SonicPoint. I want to allow wireless access to both employees and guests. The employees should have regular network access to things like servers and printers, and the guests should have access to just the Internet. Can this be done over the same SonicPoint, or would I need to have two and set them up differently?

In other words, does each SonicPoint have it's own connection profile that applies to all connections, or can it have multiple connection profiles that are applied based on the particular user/machine?

 

[jkupski]

One sonicpoint can appear as multiple access points, each with its own SSID, connection requirements (key type, etc), VLAN, etc. See

http://www.sonicwall.com/downloads/vap_fm_for_admin_guide.pdf

for more information.

 

[PPettit]

Thanks for the information, jkupski. That answered my question.