Re: Cisco lightweight AP's / Airespace

Casey Halverson wrote:

>One thing I really would like to do is integrate authentication into our
>Active Directory architecture (LDAP).  But I only see support for
>RADIUS, is this true?
>

We're using Microsoft's IAS RADIUS plugin to authenticate through Active 
Directory. It's a bit ugly to configure but it works for most basic 
requirements.

>Yeah, I know there is CiscoACS (pile of crap), I could ask one of the
>systems guys to start running RADIUS on our domain controller, or
>perhaps deploy some nasty Unix RADIUS/LDAP hack, but all of these
>options are undesirable.
>  
>

Cisco's ACS is only worth considering you're an org scaling up to 
thousands or tens of thousands of logins. I wonder if there's a 
RADIUS/LDAP package for OS X since their OpenDirectory is just OpenLDAP. 
For other, non-Airepspace Cisco authentication I am using an inexpensive 
TACACS+ server called ClearBox.  If I could have found a similar package 
for a Unix OS I would have gone with it but the price/feature combo was 
good. http://xperiencetech.com

>I am looking at this access point hardware, and it looks like it is
>sitting on a little stand --something id deploy into my home office and
>sit on the desk.  I currently like the wall mount configuration of my
>Cisco 1200's and I would like to do the same with these 1000 series
>AP's.  How did wall mounting work out for you?
>  
>

They have some wall mounting brackets available but we've only used the 
clips that allow them to be mounted on the rail in between ceiling 
tiles. Feel free to write me on or offlist if you have additional 
questions. I also have contact info for a Seattle based sales engineer 
that I've only tapped a couple of times but he's very knowledgeable 
about the product -- I think he came from their pro services group and 
he's been with Airespace since well before the acquisition.

-Gary
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