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Cisco 3200 Series Wireless MIC Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 3 Administering the WMIC
Configuring and Enabling RADIUS
Configuring Settings for All RADIUS Servers
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure global communication settings
between the bridge and all RADIUS servers:
To return to the default setting for the retransmit, timeout, and deadtime, use the no forms of these
commands.
Configuring the Bridge to Use Vendor-Specific RADIUS Attributes
The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) draft standard specifies a method for communicating
vendor-specific information between the bridge and the RADIUS server by using the vendor-specific
attribute (attribute 26). Vendor-specific attributes (VSAs) allow vendors to support their own extended
attributes not suitable for general use. The Cisco RADIUS implementation supports one vendor-specific
option by using the format recommended in the specification. Cisco’s vendor ID is 9, and the supported
option has vendor type 1, which is named cisco-avpair. The value is a string with this format:
protocol : attribute sep value *
Command Purpose
Step 1
configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
radius-server key string Specify the shared secret text string used between the bridge and all
RADIUS servers.
Note The key is a text string that must match the encryption key used on
the RADIUS server. Leading spaces are ignored, but spaces within
and at the end of the key are used. If you use spaces in your key, do
not enclose the key in quotation marks unless the quotation marks
are part of the key.
Step 3
radius-server retransmit retries Specify the number of times the bridge sends each RADIUS request to the
server before giving up. The default is 3; the range 1 to 1000.
Step 4
radius-server timeout seconds Specify the number of seconds an bridge waits for a reply to a RADIUS
request before resending the request. The default is 5 seconds; the range is
1 to 1000.
Step 5
radius-server deadtime minutes Use this command to cause the Cisco IOS software to mark as “dead” any
RADIUS servers that fail to respond to authentication requests, thus
avoiding the wait for the request to time out before trying the next
configured server. A RADIUS server marked as dead is skipped by
additional requests for the duration of minutes that you specify, or unless
there are no servers not marked dead.
Note If you set up more than one RADIUS server, you must configure the
RADIUS server deadtime for optimal performance.
Step 6
radius-server attribute 32
include-in-access-req format %h
Configure the bridge to send its system name in the NAS_ID attribute for
authentication.
Step 7
end Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 8
show running-config Verify your settings.
Step 9
copy running-config startup-config (Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.