Specifications

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Step 5: Deploying and Configuring Wireless APs
Deploy your wireless APs to provide coverage for all the areas of coverage for your wireless network.
Configure your Summit WM Controller and Wireless APs to support WPA, WPA2, or WEP encryption
with 802.1X authentication. Additionally, configure RADIUS settings on your Summit WM Controller
with the following:
1 The IP address or name of a primary RADIUS server, the shared secret, UDP ports for authentication
and accounting, and failure detection settings.
2 The IP address or name of a secondary RADIUS server, the shared secret, UDP ports for
authentication and accounting, and failure detection settings.
To balance the load of RADIUS traffic between the two IAS servers, configure half of the wireless APs
with the primary IAS server as the primary RADIUS server and the secondary IAS server as the
secondary RADIUS server and the other half of the wireless APs with the secondary IAS server as the
primary RADIUS server and the primary IAS server as the secondary RADIUS server.
If the wireless APs require vendor specific attributes (VSAs), you must add the VSAs to the remote
access policies of the IAS servers. For more information, see the “Configure vendor-specific attributes
for a remote access policy” procedure previously described. If you add VSAs to the remote access policy
on the primary IAS server, perform steps 7 and 8 of the “Step 4: Configuring the secondary IAS server”
section to copy the primary IAS server configuration to the secondary IAS server.
Step 6: Configuring Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11)
Policies Group Policy Settings
With the Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11) Policies Group Policy extension provided in Windows Server
2003, you can specify a list of preferred networks and their settings to automatically configure wireless
LAN settings for wireless clients running Windows XP with SP1, Windows XP with SP2, Windows
Server 2003 with no service packs installed, or Windows Server 2003. For each preferred network, you
can specify association settings (such as the SSID and the authentication and encryption method) and
802.1X authentication settings (such as the specific EAP type).
To configure Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11) Policies Group Policy settings, do the following:
1 Open the Active Directory Users and Computers snap-in
2 In the console tree, double-click Active Directory Users and Computers, right-click the domain
system container that contains your wireless computer accounts, and then click Properties.
3 On the Group Policy tab, click the appropriate Group Policy object (the default object is Default
Domain Policy), and then click Edit.
4 In the console tree, open Computer Configuration, then Windows Settings, then Security Settings,
then Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11) Policies.
5 Right-click Wireless Network (IEEE 802.11) Policies, and then click Create Wireless Network Policy.
In the Wireless Network Policy Wizard, type a name and description.
6 In the details pane, double-click your newly created wireless network policy.
7 Change settings on the General tab as needed.
8 Click the Preferred Networks tab. Click Add to add a preferred network.