Configuration Overview - Allen-Bradley Stratix 5100 User Manual

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Configuring WDS, Fast Secure Roaming, Radio Management, and Wireless Intrusion Detection Services

Configuration Overview

You must complete three major steps to set up WDS and fast, secure roaming:

1. Configure access points, ISRs, or switches as potential WDS devices. This

chapter provides instructions for configuring an access point as a WDS

device. For instructions on configuring WDS on a switch equipped with a

Wireless LAN Services Module (WLSM),

Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Wireless LAN Services Module

(WLSM) Deployment

2. Configure the rest of your access points to use the WDS device.

3. Configure the authentication server on your network to authenticate the

WDS device and the access points that use the WDS device.

This figure shows the required configuration for each device that participates in

Figure 100 - Configurations on Devices Participating in WDS

Access point:

Wireless Services

Username and password

for authentication to the

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Configured as a WDS

If an access point serving

client devices, username

and password for

authentication to the server

Authentication server

WDS access point

entered as an infra-

structure device

Access points that use

the WDS entered on the

server as client devices

with usernames and

passwords that match

those configured on the

access points