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Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points
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Chapter 11 Configuring Authentication Types
Configuring Authentication Types
Configuring Authentication Types
This section describes how to configure authentication types. You attach configuration types to the
access point’s SSIDs. See the “Configuring Multiple SSIDs” section on page 7-3 for details on setting
up multiple SSIDs. This section contains these topics:
• Assigning Authentication Types to an SSID, page 11-9
• Configuring Authentication Holdoffs, Timeouts, and Intervals, page 11-16
• Creating and Applying EAP Method Profiles for the 802.1X Supplicant, page 11-17
Assigning Authentication Types to an SSID
The SSID you configure will be mapped to a VLAN or a radio interface. Hence, make sure that the
authentication type you define for the SSID is compatible with the encryption type defined for the
associated VLAN or radio interface. See Chapter 10, “Understanding Authentication and Encryption
Mechanisms,” for more details.
Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure authentication types for SSIDs:
Command Purpose
Step 1
configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
dot11 ssid ssid-string 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.
Some clients do not support special characters in the SSID
string. Cisco recommends avoiding the following characters in
the SSID string: !#;+\/"