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Configuring rsn (802.11i), Creating a service profile for rsn, Enabling rsn – 3Com WX4400 3CRWX440095A User Manual

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Configuring RSN
(802.11i)

Robust Security Network (RSN) provides 802.11i support. RSN uses AES
encryption.

You can configure a service profile to support RSN clients exclusively, or to
support RSN with WPA clients, or even RSN, WPA and WEP clients.

The configuration tasks for a service profile to use RSN are similar to the
tasks for WPA:

1 Create a service profile for each SSID that will support RSN clients.

2 Enable the RSN IE in the service profile.

3 Enable the cipher suites you want to support in the service profile. (TKIP is

enabled by default.) Optionally, you also can change the countermeasures
timer value for TKIP.

4 Map the service profile to the radio profile that will control IEEE settings

for the radios.

5 Assign the radio profile to the radios and enable the radios.

If you plan to use PSK authentication, you also need to enable this
authentication method and enter an ASCII passphrase or a hexadecimal
(raw) key.

Creating a Service

Profile for RSN

Encryption parameters apply to all users who use the SSID configured by
a service profile. To create a service profile, use the following command:

set service-profile name

To create a new service profile named rsn, type the following command:

WX1200# set service-profile rsn
success: change accepted.

Enabling RSN

To enable RSN, you must enable the RSN information element (IE) in the
service profile. To enable the RSN IE, use the following command:

set service-profile name rsn-ie {enable | disable}

To enable RSN in service profile wpa, type the following command:

WX1200# set service-profile rsn rsn-ie enable
success: change accepted.