NWA50AX-PRO Country Code

fsardone
fsardone Posts: 3  Freshman Member
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Good Morning,

I am deployng a small setup of 3 NWA50AX-PRO all wired into 2 different switches with multigibit interfaces. The 2 switches are interconnected between them with 10Gb trunk. The NWA are configured as AP and roaming is enabled on the 5 Ghz Profile. Stand Alone config, no nebula (the management network has no DHCP or Internet connectivity for security reasons), I am happy with using CLI (I am old school Cisco trained).

The AP have native VLAN 1 on interfaces (the VLAN 1 network is only management and does not carry user traffic). Traffic is on VLAN 2/4 and 9 which are associated to SSID. Radio 1 is configured according to default profile and radio 2 according to default1.

SSID profiles are similarly configured on both radios with similar names (duplicate names are not allowed) and identical SSID for the 2.5 Ghz radio 1 and the 5Ghz radio2. Roaming between the three AP works fine and the AP are configured with static IP.

No issues reported (finger crossed). But I just realized that on one of the AP I never ran the wizard so I did not set the country code to IT. while on the others I cancelled the wizerd only after setting the country code and IP address.

Couple of questions:

-Is there a way to check what country code the AP is operating and resetting it to what it is needed? Or do I need to reset to factory defaults and then run the wizard up to the point of country selection?

-I the setup correct (i.e. it is ok to have multiple AP in AP mode with overlapping coverage areas in order to facilitate roaming) or there is a way to administer all of them in a centralized way (i.e. one of them operating as primary, mirroring config like SSID/VLAN) or do I need to set each of them individually as I did?

-If I understand correctly, a single security profile can be applied to multiple SSID within each AP so when I modify PWD in that profile it is modified in all profiles using it, correct?

Thank you for your time and support.

Fabio

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  • Zyxel_Melen
    Zyxel_Melen Posts: 2,685  Zyxel Employee
    Zyxel Certified Network Engineer Level 1 - Switch Zyxel Certified Network Administrator - Switch Zyxel Certified Network Administrator - Nebula Zyxel Certified Sales Associate
    Answer ✓

    Hi @fsardone,

    -Is there a way to check what country code the AP is operating and resetting it to what it is needed? Or do I need to reset to factory defaults and then run the wizard up to the point of country selection?

    • Please use the command show running-config | match "country-code" to check your country code. You don't need to factory default, since you can follow the below screenshot to configure.
    • image.png

    -I the setup correct (i.e. it is ok to have multiple AP in AP mode with overlapping coverage areas in order to facilitate roaming) or there is a way to administer all of them in a centralized way (i.e. one of them operating as primary, mirroring config like SSID/VLAN) or do I need to set each of them individually as I did?

    • Zyxel AP supports three modes, controller mode, standalone mode, and Nebula mode. To centralize control and configuration, you can consider controller mode and Nebula mode(but you mentioned the reason you cannot use it.) The standalone mode configuration is individual.

    -If I understand correctly, a single security profile can be applied to multiple SSID within each AP so when I modify PWD in that profile it is modified in all profiles using it, correct?

    • Correct.

    Zyxel Melen


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  • Zyxel_Melen
    Zyxel_Melen Posts: 2,685  Zyxel Employee
    Zyxel Certified Network Engineer Level 1 - Switch Zyxel Certified Network Administrator - Switch Zyxel Certified Network Administrator - Nebula Zyxel Certified Sales Associate
    Answer ✓

    Hi @fsardone,

    -Is there a way to check what country code the AP is operating and resetting it to what it is needed? Or do I need to reset to factory defaults and then run the wizard up to the point of country selection?

    • Please use the command show running-config | match "country-code" to check your country code. You don't need to factory default, since you can follow the below screenshot to configure.
    • image.png

    -I the setup correct (i.e. it is ok to have multiple AP in AP mode with overlapping coverage areas in order to facilitate roaming) or there is a way to administer all of them in a centralized way (i.e. one of them operating as primary, mirroring config like SSID/VLAN) or do I need to set each of them individually as I did?

    • Zyxel AP supports three modes, controller mode, standalone mode, and Nebula mode. To centralize control and configuration, you can consider controller mode and Nebula mode(but you mentioned the reason you cannot use it.) The standalone mode configuration is individual.

    -If I understand correctly, a single security profile can be applied to multiple SSID within each AP so when I modify PWD in that profile it is modified in all profiles using it, correct?

    • Correct.

    Zyxel Melen


  • fsardone
    fsardone Posts: 3  Freshman Member
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    Thank you very much,

    exactly what was needed and promptly implemented.

    For those who read be aware that the country code is applied when exiting from wlan-radio-profile configuration mode and while the 2 profiles have a different country code radio is disabled.

    You get the following warning:

    WARNING: Country code do not match each other in the profiles you selected. Radios will be disabled to prevent RF violation.

    Finally you can check what radio profile is configured with a:

    show wlan-radio-profile all

    where you also get the names of the radio profiles configured on the AP.

    Cheers

    Fabio

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