Design Guide

Cisco Aironet 1520, 1130, 1240 Series Wireless Mesh Access Points, Design and Deployment Guide, Release 6.0

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Connecting the Cisco 1520 Series Mesh Access Point to Your Network

Step 1 In the controller GUI, click Wireless > Mesh. The Mesh window appears (see Figure 43).

Figure 43 Mesh Window

Step 2 In the security section, select the EAP option from the Security Mode drop-down menu.

Step 3 Check the Enabled check boxes for the External MAC Filter Authorization and Force External

Authentication options.

Step 4 Click Apply.

Step 5 Click Save Configuration.

Using the CLI to Enable External Authentication of Mesh Access Points

To enable external authentication for mesh access points using the CLI, enter the following commands:

a. config mesh security eap

b. config macfilter mac-delimiter colon

c. config mesh security rad-mac-filter enable

d. config mesh radius-server index enable

e. config mesh security force-ext-auth enable (Optional)

Using the CLI to View Security Statistics

To view security statistics for mesh access points using the CLI, enter the following command:

show mesh security-stats Cisco_AP

Command shows packet error statistics and a count of failures, timeouts, and association and

authentication successes as well as reassociations and reauthentications for the specified access point

and its child.