Jeffrey, Your advice is probably good for Cisco wireless, but not other vendors. On Aruba wireless, client-specific settings can be configured on the firewall user role. Aruba also intelligently detects voice traffic to prioritize and process it differently. We have not had any issues with our Cisco wireless phones on our normal WPA2-Enterprise SSID.
Bruce Osborne Network Engineer - Wireless Team IT Network Services (434) 592-4229 LIBERTY UNIVERSITY Training Champions for Christ since 1971 From: Jeffrey Sessler [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, May 12, 2014 6:51 PM Subject: Re: Wifi Phone on Separate SSID` Stick to the dedicated SSID for wireless. There are a number of knobs that need to be adjusted to ensure a wireless phone works well and some of these same knobs can interfere with normal client operation. We started out with our wireless cisco phones on our general WPA2-Ent network but there were a lot of consistency issues, especially with roaming. We then setup a separate VoIP SSID (not broadcast), turned all the knobs to the correct settings, and now the phones are flawless in operation including roaming. Our VoIP SSID is WPA2-Ent (peap-mschapv2), and we create a dedicated user for each phone based on its extension. There is a Cicso document out there with step-by-step instructions for setting up a dedicated VoIP SSID. The document is a work of art - probably one of the best I've seen with screen grabs of the WLC/WCS/Prime configuration screens. If you can't find it, email me off-list and I'll send you the copy I have. Jeff >>> "Legge, Jeffry" <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> 5/8/2014 >>> 9:39 AM >>> I currently have a separate SSID for wireless cisco phones. I am thinking about using my wpa2 secure SSID for them. Anybody got any caveats or suggestions? Jeff Legge Network Services Radford University (540)-831-7727 ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/. ********** Participation and subscription information for this EDUCAUSE Constituent Group discussion list can be found at http://www.educause.edu/groups/.
