Specifications

Chapter 1 Overview
Key Features
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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 4-26 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.