Article:		Securing AirPort Extreme Networks with WPA
Subject:		WPA and WDS
Date:		2003-12-29 13:43:41
From:		anonymous2
Response to: WPA and WDS
Can you cite a source for this information please? We've become quite reliant on WDS in the last few weeks and are in the planning stages of a WPA deployment. BTW, all APs here are Cisco 1230's. Speaking of WPA, does anyone know what EAP type AirPortExtreme uses? L-EAP, EAP-TLS, PEAP, EAP-TTLS or some other? One of my engineers says EAP type, not WDS, is why we can't get Macs to WPA associate to Cisco access points.

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• WPA and WDS
  2004-01-01 20:03:48  anonymous2 [Reply | View]
  
  
  WDS has nothing to do with WPA. WDS is used for the passing of radius to a designated access point, hence stopping the need for all access points authenticating to one radius server. WPA occurs after the user is authenticated. I know this because we're implementing wireless across our entire campus using Cisco 1230's and have already deployed them in 4 buildings. I've successfully setup WDS, with EAP-PEAP with WPA encryption and it works very well.
  
  I also cannot get MAC's running OS 10.3 to connect to our wireless network using WPA. According to our radius logs, the user successfully authenticates via EAP-PEAP but the WPA key process seems to fall over. Are you experiencing the same problems?