Chapter 6 Configuring Authentication Types

Configure Authentication Types

Configure Authentication Types

This section describes how to configure authentication types. You attach configuration types to the access point’s SSIDs. See Chapter 3, “Configuring Multiple SSIDs,” for details on setting up multiple SSIDs. This section contains these topics:

Assigning Authentication Types to an SSID, page 6-9

Configuring Authentication Holdoffs, Timeouts, and Intervals, page 6-15

Assigning Authentication Types to an SSID

Beginning in privileged EXEC mode, follow these steps to configure authentication types for SSIDs:

 

Command

Purpose

Step 1

 

 

configure terminal

Enter global configuration mode.

Step 2

 

 

dot11 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. SSIDs are case sensitive.

 

 

 

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