User's Manual

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Chapter4 | WirelessSettings 
RadioSettings 
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RadiusAuth Secret — A sharedtext stringused to encrypt messages
betweentheaccesspointandtheRADIUSserver.Besurethatthesame
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textstringisspecifiedontheRADIUSauthenticationserver .Donotuse
blankspacesinthestring.(Maximumlength: 255characters)
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RadiusAcctServe r —SpecifiestheIPaddressorhostnameofthe 
RADIUSaccountingserver. 
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RadiusAcctPort —TheUDPportnumberusedbytheRADIUSserver 
foraccountingmessages.(Range:1024‐65535;Default:1813)
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RadiusAcctSecret— A  shared textstring usedtoencryptmessages 
betweentheaccesspointandtheRADIUSserver.Besurethatthesame 
textstringisspecifiedontheRADIUSaccountingserver. Donotuse 
blankspacesinthestring.(Maximumlength: 255characters)
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WPA2‐EAP—WPA wasintroducedasaninterimsolutionforthe
vulnerabilityofWEP pendingtheratificationof theIEEE802.11iwireless
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securitystandard.Ineffect,theWPAsecurityfeaturesareasubsetofthe 
802.11istandard.WPA2includesthenowratified802.11istandard,butalso 
offersbackwardcompatibilitywithWPA.Therefore,WPA2includesthe 
same802.1XandPSKmodesofoperationandsupportforTKIPencryption.
ARADIUSserverisusedforauthentication,andcanalsobeusedto
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accounting.
Referto WPA‐PSKforadescriptionofencryptionmethods.
RefertoWPA‐EAPforainformationonconfiguringtheRADIUSserver.
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◆ AccessControlList—Wirelessclientscanbeauthenticatedfornetworkaccess 
bycheckingtheirMACaddressagainstthelocaldatabaseconfiguredonthe 
accesspoint.(Default:OFF)
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Policy —TheMAClist canbeconfiguredtoeitherallowordenynetwork 
accesstospecifiedclients.(Default:AllowallMACsonlist) 
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FilteredMACs—Enteraphysicaladdressforeachclient.Entersixpairsof
hexadecimaldigits separatedbycolons,andfollowedbyanoptional
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comment;forexample,00:90 : D1: 12:AB:89JohnSmith’sPC
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Network Settings 
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◆ NetworkBehavior —Oneofthefollowingconnectionmethodsmustbe 
specified.(Default:RoutetoInternet)
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BridgetoInternet —ConfiguresaninterfaceasattachedtotheWAN. 
TrafficfromthisinterfaceisdirectlybridgedintotheInternet.(SeeFigure6, 
“BridgetoInternet",onpage17.) 