About band-steering, 802.11x and 2.4GHz band

[sergi_dupe]

I have a Guest SSID only in the 2.4GHz band with 802.11x authentication method. When I try to connect with two different windows machines, the network works ok. 

However, if I inject the following commands through cli:

1. radio profile my_home band-steering enable
2. radio profile my_home band-steering prefer-5g suppression-limit 5
3. save config

I cannot connect to my guest network any more. In both machines, windows says “unable to connect to this network”.

Looking some syslog entries, I found that AP denies connection because of band-steering, nevertheless its an ssid broadcasted only in 2.4GHz band.

Any hints?

Thank you

[Ronald_Dvorak · Accepted solution]

Hi,

if you run the command “show run | i band” I’m pretty sure you’ll see only the config for “radio profile my_home band-steering enable” but the second one is missing in the config.

You’d need to enable the mode prefer-5g first and the 2nd command that you’ve used is to set the suppression limit for prefer-5g.

In short the command should be…

1. radio profile my_home band-steering enable
2. radio profile my_home band-steering mode prefer-5g
3. radio profile my_home band-steering prefer-5g suppression-limit 5
4. save config

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Or the easy way is to use the CloudIQ dashboard 🙂

Cheers,

Ron