Cisco Systems OL-6415-04 Enabling the Radio Interface, Roles in Radio Network, Command Purpose

Chapter 2 Configuring Radio Settings

Enabling the Radio Interface

Enabling the Radio Interface

The wireless device radios are disabled by default.

Note In Cisco IOS Release 12.4 there is no default SSID. You must create a Radio Service Set Identifier (SSID) before you can enable the radio interface.

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to enable the wireless device radio:

	Command	Purpose
Step 1
	configure terminal	Enter global configuration mode.
Step 2
	interface dot11radio { 0 1 }	Enter interface configuration mode for the radio interface. The
		2.4-GHz radio is radio 0, and the 5-GHz radio is radio 1.
Step 3
	ssid	Enter the SSID. The SSID can consist of up to 32 alphanumeric
		characters. SSIDs are case sensitive.
Step 4
	no shutdown	Enable the radio port.
Step 5
	end	Return to privileged EXEC mode.
Step 6
	copy running-config startup-config	(Optional) Save your entries in the configuration file.

Use the shutdown command to disable the radio port.

Roles in Radio Network

You can configure the following roles in a radio network:

•Network or Fallback Role

•Universal Client Mode

Table 2-1shows the role in the radio network for each device.

Table 2-1	Device Role in Radio Network Configuration
		Cisco 800 s	Cisco 1800	Cisco 1841	Cisco 2800	Cisco 3800
Role in Radio Network		eries ISRs	series ISRs	series	series ISRs	series ISRs
Root access point		X	X	X	X	X
Root bridge with or without clients		–	–	X	X	X
Non-root bridge without clients		–	–	X	X	X
Universal client mode		X	X	X	X	X
Support of Workgroup bridge		X	X	X	X	X
clients

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