Chapter 1 Overview
Key Features
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Cisco Aironet 1200 Series Access Point Software Configuration Guide
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Key Features
This section describes the key features of the access point firmware. The
following are the key features of this firmware version:
•
Use accounting to collect data on wireless devices—You can enable
accounting on the access point to send accounting data about wireless client
devices to a RADIUS server on your network. See the
“Enabling Wireless
Network Accounting” section on page 5-16
for instructions on enabling
accounting.
•
Enable additional protection for WEP keys—You can enable three advanced
security features to protect against sophisticated attacks on your wireless
network’s WEP keys: Message Integrity Check (MIC), WEP key hashing, and
broadcast WEP key rotation. See the
“Additional WEP Security Features”
section on page 4-3
for more information on additional WEP protection.
•
Use EAP to Authenticate Repeater Access Points—Set up repeater access
points to authenticate to your network like other wireless client devices. After
you provide a network username and password for the repeater, it
authenticates to your network using LEAP, Cisco’s wireless authentication
method, and receives and uses dynamic WEP keys. See the
“Setting up a
Repeater Access Point as a LEAP Client” section on page 4-27
for
instructions on setting up a repeater access point.
Management Options
You can use the access point management system through the following
interfaces:
•
A web-browser interface
•
A command-line interface (CLI)
•
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)
The access point’s management system pages are organized the same way for the
web- browser interface and the CLI. The examples in this manual are all taken
from the browser interface.
Chapter 2, “Using the Management Interfaces”
provides a detailed description of each management option.