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Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Access Point Software Configuration Guide
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Chapter 4 Security Setup
Setting Up Open or Shared Key Authentication
Note
You must set the rotation interval on every access point using broadcast key
rotation. You cannot enter the rotation interval on your RADIUS server.
Tip
Use a short rotation interval if the traffic on your wireless network contains
numerous broadcast or multicast packets.
Step 4
Click
OK
. Broadcast key rotation is enabled.
Setting Up Open or Shared Key Authentication
Cisco recommends Open authentication as preferable to Shared Key
authentication. The challenge queries and responses used in Shared Key leave the
access point particularly vulnerable to intruders.
Use the AP Radio Data Encryption page to select Open or Shared Key
authentication. The internal radio and the radio module both have an AP Radio
Data Encryption page. Both pages contain the same settings.
Figure 4-6
shows the
AP Radio Data Encryption page for the internal radio.
Follow these steps to select Open or Shared Key authentication:
Step 1
Follow the instructions in the
“Setting Up WEP” section on page 4-9
to set up and
enable WEP.
You must enable WEP to use shared key authentication, but you do not have to
enable WEP to use open authentication. However, Cisco strongly recommends
that you enable WEP on all wireless networks.
Step 2
Select
Open
(default) or
Shared Key
to set the authentications the access point
recognizes. You can select all three authentication types.
Step 3
If you want to force all client devices to perform EAP authentication before
joining the network, select the
Require EAP
checkbox under Open or Shared.
Selecting the Require EAP checkbox also allows client devices using various
types of EAP authentication, including EAP-TLS and EAP-MD5, to authenticate
through the access point. To allow LEAP-enabled client devices to authenticate