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Cisco IOS Software Configuration Guide for Cisco Aironet Access Points
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Chapter 1 Overview
Features
Features
Access points running Cisco IOS software offer these software features:
• World mode—Use this feature to communicate the access point’s regulatory setting information,
including maximum transmit power and available channels, to world mode-enabled clients. Clients
using world mode can be used in countries with different regulatory settings and automatically
conform to local regulations. World mode is supported only on the 2.4-GHz radio.
• Repeater mode—Configure the access point as a wireless repeater to extend the coverage area of
your wireless network.
• Standby mode—Configure the access point as a standby unit that monitors another access point and
assumes its role in the network if the monitored access point fails.
• Multiple SSIDs—Create up to 16 SSIDs on your access point and assign any combination of these
settings to each SSID:
– Broadcast SSID mode for guests on your network
– Client authentication methods
– Maximum number of client associations
– VLAN identifier
– Proxy Mobile IP
– RADIUS accounting list identifier
– A separate SSID for infrastructure devices such as repeaters and workgroup bridges
• VLANs—Assign VLANs to the SSIDs on your access point (one VLAN per SSID) to differentiate
policies and services among users.
• QoS—Use this feature to support quality of service for prioritizing traffic from the Ethernet to the
access point. The access point also supports the voice-prioritization schemes used by 802.11b
wireless phones such as Spectralink's Netlink™ and Symbol’s Netvision™.
• Proxy Mobile IP—Use this feature to configure the access point to provide proxy Mobile IP service
for clients that do not have mobile IP software installed.
• RADIUS Accounting—Enable accounting on the access point to send accounting data about
wireless client devices to a RADIUS server on your network.
• TACACS+ adminstrator authentication—Enable TACACS+ for server-based, detailed accounting
information and flexible administrative control over authentication and authorization processes. It
provides secure, centralized validation of administrators attempting to gain access to your access
point.
• Enhanced security—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.
• Enhanced authentication services—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.