User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Cisco Wireless ISR and HWIC Access Point Configuration Guide
- Contents
- Preface
- Overview
- Configuring Radio Settings
- Enabling the Radio Interface
- Roles in Radio Network
- Configuring Network or Fallback Role
- Universal Client Mode
- Configuring Universal Client Mode
- Configuring Radio Data Rates
- Configuring Radio Transmit Power
- Configuring Radio Channel Settings
- Enabling and Disabling World Mode
- Enabling and Disabling Short Radio Preambles
- Configuring Transmit and Receive Antennas
- Disabling and Enabling Access Point Extensions
- Configuring the Ethernet Encapsulation Transformation Method
- Enabling and Disabling Reliable Multicast to Workgroup Bridges
- Enabling and Disabling Public Secure Packet Forwarding
- Configuring Beacon Period and DTIM
- Configuring RTS Threshold and Retries
- Configuring Maximum Data Retries
- Configuring Fragmentation Threshold
- Enabling Short Slot Time for 802.11g Radios
- Performing a Carrier Busy Test
- Configuring Multiple SSIDs
- Configuring an Access Point as a Local Authenticator
- Understand Local Authentication
- Configure a Local Authenticator
- Guidelines for Local Authenticators
- Configuration Overview
- Configuring the Local Authenticator Access Point
- Configuring Other Access Points to Use the Local Authenticator
- Configuring EAP-FAST Settings
- Limiting the Local Authenticator to One Authentication Type
- Unblocking Locked Usernames
- Viewing Local Authenticator Statistics
- Using Debug Messages
- Configuring Encryption Types
- Configuring Authentication Types
- Configuring RADIUS Servers
- Configuring and Enabling RADIUS
- Understanding RADIUS
- RADIUS Operation
- Configuring RADIUS
- Default RADIUS Configuration
- Identifying the RADIUS Server Host
- Configuring RADIUS Login Authentication
- Defining AAA Server Groups
- Configuring RADIUS Authorization for User Privileged Access and Network Services
- Starting RADIUS Accounting
- Selecting the CSID Format
- Configuring Settings for All RADIUS Servers
- Configuring the Access Point to Use Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes
- Configuring the Access Point for Vendor-Proprietary RADIUS Server Communication
- Configuring WISPr RADIUS Attributes
- Displaying the RADIUS Configuration
- RADIUS Attributes Sent by the Access Point
- Configuring and Enabling RADIUS
- Configuring VLANs
- Configuring QoS
- Channel Settings
- Protocol Filters
- Supported MIBs
- Error and Event Messages
- Glossary
- Index
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Chapter 7 Configuring RADIUS Servers
Configuring and Enabling RADIUS
Configuring RADIUS
This section describes how to configure your access point to support RADIUS. At a minimum, you must
identify the host or hosts that run the RADIUS server software and define the method lists for RADIUS
authentication. You can optionally define method lists for RADIUS authorization and accounting.
A method list defines the sequence and methods to be used to authenticate, to authorize, or to keep
accounts on a user. You can use method lists to designate one or more security protocols to be used, thus
ensuring a backup system if the initial method fails. The software uses the first method listed to
authenticate, to authorize, or to keep accounts on users; if that method does not respond, the software
selects the next method in the list. This process continues until there is successful communication with
a listed method or the method list is exhausted.
You s ho ul d h ave a cc es s t o an d s hou ld co nfi gu re a R AD IUS s er ver b ef or e co nfi gur in g RA DI US fe at ur es
on your access point.
This section contains this configuration information:
• Default RADIUS Configuration, page 7-4
• Identifying the RADIUS Server Host, page 7-5 (required)
• Configuring RADIUS Login Authentication, page 7-7 (required)
• Defining AAA Server Groups, page 7-9 (optional)
• Configuring RADIUS Authorization for User Privileged Access and Network Services, page 7-11
(optional)
• Starting RADIUS Accounting, page 7-12 (optional)
• Selecting the CSID Format, page 7-13 (optional)
• Configuring Settings for All RADIUS Servers, page 7-13 (optional)
• Configuring the Access Point to Use Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes, page 7-14 (optional)
• Configuring the Access Point for Vendor-Proprietary RADIUS Server Communication, page 7-15
(optional)
• Configuring WISPr RADIUS Attributes, page 7-16 (optional)
Note The RADIUS server CLI commands are disabled until you enter the aaa new-model command.
Default RADIUS Configuration
RADIUS and AAA are disabled by default.
To prevent a lapse in security, you cannot configure RADIUS through a network management
application. When enabled, RADIUS can authenticate users accessing the access point through the CLI.