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Features
Features
Bridges running Cisco IOS offer these software features:
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Management Options
You can use the bridge management system through the following interfaces:
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Cisco Aironet 1400 Series Wireless Bridges Software Configuration Guide
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VLANs—Allow VLAN trunking on both wireless and Ethernet interfaces.
QoS—Use this feature to support quality of service for prioritizing traffic on the wireless interface.
RADIUS Accounting—Enable accounting on the bridge to send accounting data about wireless
client devices to a RADIUS server on your network.
TACACS+ adminstrator authentication—Enable TACACS+ for server-based, detailed accounting
information and flexible administrative control over authentication and authorization processes. It
provides secure, centralized validation of administrators attempting to gain access to your bridge.
Enhanced security—Enable three advanced security features to protect against sophisticated attacks
on your wireless network's WEP keys: Message Integrity Check (MIC) and WEP key hashing.
Enhanced authentication services—Set up non-root bridges to authenticate to your network like
other wireless client devices. After you provide a network username and password for the non-root
bridge, it authenticates to your network using LEAP, Cisco's wireless authentication method, and
receives and uses dynamic WEP keys.
The IOS command-line interface (CLI), which you use through a Telnet session. Most of the
examples in this manual are taken from the CLI.
provides a detailed description of the CLI.
A web-browser interface, which you use through a web browser.
Web-Browser Interface,"
provides a detailed description of the web-browser interface.
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).
configure your bridge for SNMP management.
Chapter 4, "Using the Command-Line Interface,"
Chapter 3, "Using the
Chapter 16, "Configuring SNMP,"
Chapter 1
Overview
explains how to
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