FortiOS Handbook - Deploying Wireless Networks

Introduction
Welcome and thank you for selecting Fortinet products for your network protection. This document describes how
to configure wireless networks with FortiWiFi, FortiGate, and FortiAP units.
This chapter contains the following topics:
• Before you begin
• How this guide is organized
Before you begin
Before you begin using this guide, please ensure that:
• You have administrative access to the web-based manager and/or CLI.
• The FortiGate unit is integrated into your network.
• The operation mode has been configured.
• The system time, DNS settings, administrator password, and network interfaces have been configured.
• Firmware, FortiGuard Antivirus and FortiGuard Antispam updates are completed.
• FortiGuard Analysis & Management Service is properly configured.
While using the instructions in this guide, note that administrators are assumed to be super_admin administrators
unless otherwise specified. Some restrictions will apply to other administrators.
How this guide is organized
This FortiOS Handbook chapter contains the following sections:
Introduction to wireless networking explains the basic concepts of wireless networking and how to plan your
wireless network.
Configuring a WiFi LAN explains how to set up a basic wireless network, prior to deploying access point hardware.
Access point deployment explains how to deploy access point hardware and add it to your wireless network
configuration.
Wireless Mesh explains how to configure a Wi-Fi network where access points are connected to the Wi-Fi
controller wirelessly instead of by Ethernet.
WiFi-Ethernet Bridge Operation shows how to use the FortiAP Wi-Fi-Ethernet bridge feature.
Protecting the WiFi Network explains the Wireless Intrusion Detection System (WIDS).
Wireless network monitoring explains how to monitor your wireless clients and how to monitor other wireless
access points, potentially rogues, in your coverage area.
Configuring wireless network clients explains how to configure typical wireless clients to work with a WPA-
Enterprise protected network.
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