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Configuring Authentication Types
Setting Up a Non-Root Bridge as a LEAP Client
You can set up a non-root bridge to authenticate to your network like other wireless client devices. After
you provide a network username and password for the non-root bridge, it authenticates to your network
using LEAP, Cisco's wireless authentication method, and receives and uses dynamic WEP keys.
Setting up a non-root bridge as a LEAP client requires three major steps:
1.
2.
3.
Beginning in Privileged Exec mode, follow these instructions to set up the non-root bridge as a LEAP
client:
Command
Step 1
configure terminal
Step 2
interface dot11radio 0
Step 3
ssid ssid-string
Step 4
authentication client
username username
password password
Step 5
authentication network-eap
list-name
Step 6
end
Step 7
copy running-config
startup-config
This example sets a LEAP username and password for the SSID bridgeman, and configures
Network-EAP as the authentication type for the SSID on the non-root bridge:
bridge# configure terminal
bridge(config)# configure interface dot11radio 0
bridge(config-if)# ssid bridgeman
bridge(config-ssid)# authentication client username bugsy password run4yerlife
bridge(config-ssid)# authentication network-eap romeo
bridge(config-ssid)# end
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Create an authentication username and password for the non-root bridge on your authentication
server.
Configure LEAP authentication on the root bridge to which the non-root bridge associates.
Configure the non-root bridge to act as a LEAP client.
Purpose
Enter global configuration mode.
Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface.
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.
Configure the username and password that the non-root bridge
uses when it performs LEAP authentication. This username and
password must match the username and password that you set up
for the non-root bridge on the authentication server.
Set the authentication type for the SSID to Network-EAP.
Return to privileged EXEC mode.
(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.
Chapter 10
Configuring Authentication Types
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