Glad it was helpful to you :). That had bothered me as well, so you're not
alone.

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On Feb 17, 2011, at 3:30 AM, "Silverline,Tim" <[email protected]>
wrote:

Thanks Dominic.  I sent a follow up email shortly after this pointing out my
oversight as I read the final solution.



I was very quick to react (in poor judgment apparently) since this specific
issue has bothered and puzzled me for quite some time.  In fact I brought it
up in a CCIE wireless bootcamp I recently attended (I won’t name the vendor
because the class was a large disappointment) and many other locations
including several Cisco wireless sessions and was never once provided this
guidance.



I am very grateful to have learned this new detail and happy that Jason
included it in this workbook.



Tim



*From:* Stalder Dominic [mailto:[email protected]]
*Sent:* Wednesday, February 16, 2011 11:14 PM
*To:* Silverline,Tim; [email protected]
*Subject:* Re: [CCIE Wireless] LAB 4.6 Observation



Hi Tim

Your are absolutly right concerning the fact, that WLC uses RADIUS if a
server is configured globally, even it is not specified under security in
the WLAN profile. But the solution for IPX1 ist correct in the DSG, because
of this statement:

“To ensure that users on IPX1 are not authenticated via RADIUS, *make sure
thate the “Network” (User) box is unchecked for the RADIUS server*”

You don’t need to completely disable the RADIUS server, you just can disable
the user authentication, so you are still able to authenticate management
users, as an example. See attached screenshot.

Regards
Dominic

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*Von: *"Silverline,Tim" <[email protected]>
*Datum: *Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:49:12 -0600
*An: *"[email protected]" <[email protected]
>
*Betreff: *[CCIE Wireless] LAB 4.6 Observation

Part of the IPX1 configuration states:  “Ensure that users won’t be able to
use RADIUS for authentication”

The DSG shows this is accomplished by simply not selecting RADIUS servers
under the AAA policy within the IPX1 WLAN.

Just wanted to point out that this is not actually a valid method of
ensuring RADIUS is not used on Cisco’s controllers.

Something that has been frustrating to me about WLCs for quite some time –
even if no RADIUS servers are selected within a particular WLAN – the
controller will still attempt to authenticate to a RADIUS server from the
authentication servers listed under the security tab.

The only way to actually prevent this is by removing every single RADIUS
server from the controller thereby disabling RADIUS authentication entirely.

I do not believe this has been fixed even in the latest versions of code
(though I have not tested on 7.x and later).


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