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Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridges Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 10 Configuring Authentication Types
Configuring Authentication Types
Note
If you use EAP authentication, you can select open or shared key authentication, but you don’t have to.
EAP authentication controls authentication both to your bridge and to your network.
Configuring Authentication Types
This section describes how to configure authentication types. You attach configuration types to the
bridge’s SSID. See
Chapter 7, “Configuring SSIDs,”
for details on setting up the bridge SSID. This
section contains these topics:
•
Default Authentication Settings, page 10-5
•
Assigning Authentication Types to an SSID, page 10-5
•
Configuring Authentication Holdoffs, Timeouts, and Intervals, page 10-7
Default Authentication Settings
The default SSID on the bridge is
autoinstall
.
Table 10-1
shows the default authentication settings for
the default SSID:
Assigning Authentication Types to an SSID
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure authentication types for SSIDs:
Table 10-1
Default Authentication Configuration
Feature
Default Setting
SSID
autoinstall
Guest Mode SSID
autoinstall (The bridge broadcasts this SSID in its
beacon and allows bridges with no SSID to
associate.)
Authentication types assigned to tsunami
open
Command
Purpose
Step 1
configure terminal
Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
interface dot11radio 0
Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface.
Step 3
ssid
ssid-string
Create an SSID and enter SSID configuration mode for the new
SSID. The SSID can consist of up to 32 alphanumeric
characters. SSIDs are case sensitive.
Note
Do not include spaces in SSIDs.