Cisco Systems Verifying Repeater Operation, Setting Up a Repeater As a LEAP Client

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Chapter19 Configuring Repeater and Standby Access Points and Workgroup Bridge Mode
Aligning Antennas
Use the show dot11 antenna-alignment command to list the MAC addresses and signal level for the
last 10 devices that responded to the probe.
Verifying Repeater Operation
After you set up the repeater, check the LEDs on top of the repeater access point. If your repeater is
functioning correctly, the LEDs on the repeater and the root access point to which it is associated behave
like this:
•The status LED on the root access point is steady green, indicating that at least one client device is
associated with it (in this case, the repeater).
•The status LED on the repeater access point is steady green when it is associated with the root access
point and the repeater has client devices associated to it. The repeater's status LED flashes (steady
green for 7/8 of a second and off for 1/8 of a second) when it is associated with the root access point
but the repeater has no client devices associated to it.
The repeater access point should also appear as associated with the root access point in the root access
point's Association Table.
Setting Up a Repeater As a LEAP Client
You can set up a repeater access point to authenticate to your network like other wireless client devices.
After you provide a network username and password for the repeater access point, it authenticates to
your network using LEAP, Cisco's wireless authentication method, and receives and uses dynamic WEP
keys.
Setting up a repeater as a LEAP client requires three major steps:
1. Create an authentication username and password for the repeater on your authentication server.
2. Configure LEAP authentication on the root access point to which the repeater associates. The access
point to which the repeater associates is called the parent access point. See Chapter 11, “Configuring
Authentication Types,” for instructions on setting up authentication.
Note On the repeater access point, you must enable the same cipher suite or WEP encryption
method and WEP features that are enabled on the parent access point.
3. Configure the repeater to act as a LEAP client. Beginning in Privileged Exec mode, follow these
instructions to set up the repeater as a LEAP client:
Command Purpose
Step1 configure terminal Enter global configuration mode.
Step2 interface dot11radio { 0 | 1 } Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface.
The 2.4-GHz radio and the 2.4-GHz 802.11n radio is 0.
The 5-GHz radio and the 5-GHz 802.11n radio is 1.
Step3 ssid ssid-string Create an SSID and enter SSID configuration mode for the new
SSID. The SSID can consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters,
but they should not include spaces. SSIDs are case-sensitive.