WDS again

jefvaneijk · ‎08-26-2005

I am out of .....

I have to AP 1210, one is the WDS master, the second one is a WDS client. The client AP is registered in the master. But houw must i configure the client AP? i am running two vlan's on the master.

What to configure on the client? Same frequency? Must is also setup a SSID and vlan's?

The master is working OK but soon i try to connect with the client it won't authenticate.

vblavet · ‎08-28-2005

Hi,

You need to configure the WDS Client AP with the same WLAN properties as the WDS master (SSIDs, VLANs, authentication level : Open/Shared/802.1X, encryption level : WEP/TKIP/AES, SNMP, ...).

You don't have to configure any radius server (proxied to the WDS).

You also need to do your radio design, which means that each AP will have its own radio channel and power setting.

I suspect that your client fail to authenticate to the WDS client AP, because it does not have the SSIDs and authentication properties configured.

Hope this helps,

Vincent

jefvaneijk · ‎08-28-2005

So you take the config from the WDS AP and put it into the other AP without radius configured?

The problem what i have is as follow.

We use a IBM laptop (XP) with a INTEL card. Now i can contact the main AP, but when i try to connect to a other AP (registered with WDS) It comes back with a msg that the Credentials are not correct. (PAC) Maybe i must search in to the laptop config.

vblavet · ‎08-29-2005

Yes ... and not ... not just copy-paste the 2 config (because you may have problems with IP@, and other) but most of it yes.

You need to have the same SSID, VLAN configured. On the GUI interface in Security->Server Manager, you need to have your radius server only on the WDS. You don't have to configure the radius list on the SSID configuration (Security->SSID Manager). You only need to configure it in the Wireless Service->WDS->Server Groups on the WDS AP.

For trouble shooting, if you are lucky enought to use ACS,just check the ACS log to see if the ACS receive something in the failed attempt or the success. If you see something then your WDS/Client APs config should be good.

Hope this helps,

Vincent