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Use Access Point Sophos in a Standalone mode

Hello,

We need to perform wifi audits with sophos access points. I would like to be able to connect a computer to an SSID on an access point without the access point communicating with Sophos Central. How can I do ? Currently, when the access point is not communicating with Sophos Central, the SSID is not visible.

Are Sophos Access Points able to operate in a stand-alone mode?

THANKS.

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[edited by: Erick Jan at 5:05 AM (GMT -8) on 12 Jan 2024]

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LuCar Toni 8 months ago +1 suggested

You can select in the SSID to be broadcasted, even if Central is not accessible. The option is in Central itself.

0 Alan Brand 8 months ago

For most of the older (ATH7/ATH10 based) access points a openwrt solution exists.

If you audit only hardware, not software this may be sufficient.

Otherwise use a local instance of Sophos UTM (can be virtual) to span your SSID.
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0 LuCar Toni 8 months ago

You can select in the SSID to be broadcasted, even if Central is not accessible. The option is in Central itself.

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0 Romain Ludens 8 months ago in reply to LuCar Toni

Hello, thanks for reply LuCar Toni. I can't find the option in central. Can u tell me where is it ?

Thanks in advance !
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0 Romain Ludens 8 months ago

Hello,

no documentation of your 2 solutions (SSID Brodcast from central or how to launch local instance of Sophos UTM) seems to be found on the internet. 

Can you tell me where to find something please?

Thanks.

0 LuCar Toni 8 months ago in reply to Romain Ludens

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0 Romain Ludens 8 months ago in reply to LuCar Toni

My Fault, i made a mistake. We don't have Sophos Central, only UTM 9 and it seems to me that there is no possibility to let the ssid available without communication with the console.

Is there any other way to make it work ?
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0 Romain Ludens 8 months ago

hello,

any ideas ?

For more information, we have AP55 (i tried to install sophos central with trial free version but it didn't work,sophos central cannot find the AP55.)

Thanks!
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