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Cisco 3200 Series Wireless MIC Software Configuration Guide

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Chapter 9 Configuring WDS, Fast Secure Roaming, and Radio Management

Configuring WDS and Fast Secure Roaming

This section describes how to configure WDS and fast, secure roaming on your wireless LAN. This

section contains these sections:

• Guidelines for WDS, page 9-5

• Requirements for WDS and Fast Secure Roaming, page 9-5

• Configuring the WMIC to use the WDS Access Point, page 9-5

• Configuring the Authentication Server to Support Fast Secure Roaming, page 9-6

• CLI Commands to Enable the WDS Server, page 9-9

• Using Debug Messages, page 9-13

Guidelines for WDS

You should be aware of these WDS guidelines:

• You cannot configure your WMIC as a WDS access point. However, when you configure your

WMIC as an access point, you can also configure it to use the WDS access point.

• Repeater access points do not support WDS.

Requirements for WDS and Fast Secure Roaming

The wireless LAN on which your WMIC resides must meet these requirements:

• Central wireless domain services (WDS) server serving a zone (see the Configuring WDS, Fast

Secure Roaming, and Radio Management chapter for more information)

• Root devices configured to communicate with Central WDS server for the zone

• Root devices on subnet / zone boundaries configured to allow unauthenticated traffic only to home

agent

• MoIP in foreign agent mode

Configuring the WMIC to use the WDS Access Point

Your WMIC must be configured as an access point before you can configure it to use WDS. Configure

the WMIC to authenticate through the WDS access point and participate in CCKM.

AP# configure terminal

AP(config)# wlccp ap username APWestWing password 7 wes7win8

AP(config)# end

In this example, the WMIC is enabled to interact with the WDS access point, and it authenticates to your

authentication server using APWestWing as its username and wes7win8 as its password. You must

configure the same username and password pair when you set up the access point as a client on your

authentication server.