User's Manual

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Chapter4 | WirelessSettings 
RadioSettings 
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Auto:TKIP+CCMP(AES) —Theencryptionmethodusedbythe 
clientisdiscoveredbytheaccesspoint. 
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Key—WPAisusedtoencryptdatatransmittedbetweenwireless 
clientsandtheVAP.WPAusesstaticsharedkeys(fixed‐length 
hexadecimaloralphanumericstrings)thataremanuallydistributedto 
allclientsthatwanttousethenetwork.
Stringlengthmustbe8to63ASCIIcharacters(lettersandnumbers).
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Nospecialcharactersareallowed.
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WPA2‐PSK:ClientsusingWPA2withaPre‐sharedKeyareacceptedfor 
authentication.
WPAwasintroducedasaninterimsolutionforthevulnerabilityofWEP
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pendingtheratificationoftheIEEE802.11iwirelesssecuritystandard.In 
effect,th eWPAsecu rity 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.
Referto WPA‐PSKforadescriptionofencryptionmethodsandthekey.
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WPA‐EAP—WPAemploysa combinationofseveraltechnologies to 
provideanenhancedsecuritysolutionfor802.11wirelessnetworks.A 
RADIUSse rverisusedforauthentication,andcanalsobeusedfor 
accounting.
Referto WPA‐PSKforadescriptionofencryptionmethods.
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RADIUSSettings
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ARADIUSservermustbespecifiedfortheaccesspointtoimplementIEEE 
802.1X network access controland Wi‐Fi ProtectedAccess(WPA) wireless 
security.
Inaddition,youcanconfigureaRADIUSAccountingservertoreceiveuser‐
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session accounting informationfrom the access point. RADIUSAccounting 
canbeusedtoprovidevaluableinformationonuseractivityinthe
network.
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This guideassumes thatyouhave alreadyconfigured RADIUSserver(s) tosupport 
the access point. Configuration of RADIUS  server software is beyond the scope of
thisguide,refertothedocumentationprovidedwiththeRADIUSserversoftware.
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RadiusAuthServer —SpecifiestheIPaddressorhostnameofthe 
RADIUSauthenticationserver.
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RadiusAuthPort—TheUDPportnumberusedbytheRADIUSserver 
forauthenticationmessages.(Range:1024‐65535;Default:1812)