On Wed, Oct 5, 2011 at 11:14 PM, Leigh Jewell <[email protected]> wrote:

> I have just ugraded from ACS v4.2 to v5 so bear that in mind with my answer.
> LDAP can be used to authenticate users on the WLC directly . WLC cannot talk
> to AD and has to use ACS to authenticate users.

ACS or any other RADIUS server linked to the AD. Very common case is
Windows Server's own IAS or NPS service.

> The scenario might be a WLC at a remote site with no redundant WAN link and
> there is an outage. There is a Windows server on-site which contains a copy
> of the user database. The WLC loses connectivity to the central ACS server
> and can then fail over to local EAP and authenticate against the local
> Windows server with LDAP.

Or still use RADIUS against the local RADIUS Windows server if it's
been configured.

-Thomas
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