Setting up AP for Stand-alone

[dhopper82]

I'm on a test network with just an AP and a client. I have no radius servers on this network. I'm able to get my statically IP'd client to be accepted by the ap through it's encryption but I keep getting errors that said it failed to authenticate (%DOT11-7-AUTH_FAILED). I know it's because it's just the ap and the client on my test network. Is there a way to set up an ap to not attempt to authenticate to a radius server? I've tried seting up local Authentication to no avail. Bearing in mind I'm working with JUST the ap and the client on this particular network.

[alinn · Accepted solution]

Hey There,

On the IOS APs the local radius server will provide only leap support, if you client supports LEAP then I would use that for client authentication. Otherwise if the the AP receives a 802.1x authentication request it will pass along to any configured external authentication. No way to stop the AP from forward the client auth request if the APs SSID is set to accept network eap authentication requests. Hope this helps.

Regards,

Aaron