Aironet 1100 AP (11.b) - am I stuck with WEP?

[cisco_moron]

Hi all,

I have several Aironet 1100 series access point. These are the 11.b with WEP encryption. Can I upgrade those to WPA or higher, or am I stuck with what I have?

Thanks in advance for any information.

[scottmac]

As it sits, you're probaby stuck with WEP. You can *probably* light up TKIP and make things more secure.

I believe you can upgrade the radios to newer 802.11g hardware, and get WPA capability with the higher speed (there's a hardware crypto accelerator on te G radios.

If the upgrades are available, I think they're in the neighborhood of US$100.00 or so plus/minus ...

This is off the top of my head, I haven't had (and won't have for a while) a chance to look things up for you, but this is my recollection.

Good Luck

Scott

[frankzehrer]

Hi Noel,

try out this one:

http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk722/tk809/technologies_configuration_example09186a008054339e.shtml#config_ap

This is a step by step guide for WPA2. You can not have WPA2 since the lack of a G-Radio interface. But WPA is possible.

Just change these few things:

Step 2a. Choose TKIP as Cipher

Step 3c. Tick also CCKM

I have the same setup running with 1200 APs only b Radios.

The difference is that WPA uses TKIP for encryption and WPA2 AES.

WPA2 is the modern implementation, but WPA meets the actual security needs of the most companies.

I hope that helps.

Best regards,

Frank

P.S. Please rate helpful posts.

[gmercuri]

Sure the 1100 supports WPA and WPA2....heres the list.

Authentication

Security Standards

? WPA

? WPA2 (802.11i)

? Cisco TKIP

? Cisco message integrity check (MIC)

? IEEE 802.11 Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) keys of 40 bits and 128 bits

802.1X EAP Types:

? EAP-Flexible Authentication via Secure Tunneling (EAP-FAST)

? Protected EAP-Generic Token Card (PEAP-GTC)

? PEAP-Microsoft Challenge Authentication Protocol Version 2 (PEAP-MSCHAP),

? EAP-Transport Layer Security (EAP-TLS)

? EAP-Tunneled TLS (EAP-TTLS)

? EAP-Subscriber Identity Module (EAP-SIM)

? Cisco LEAP

Encryption:

? AES-CCMP encryption (WPA2)

? TKIP (WPA)

? Cisco TKIP

? WPA TKIP

? IEEE 802.11 WEP keys of 40 bits and 128 bits