User's Manual

AirWorks AWK-4121 User’s Manual Web Console Configuration
Key renewal
Setting Description Factory Default
60 – 86400 seconds
(1 minute to 1 year)
Specifies the time period of group
key renewal
3600 (seconds)
WPA/WPA2-Enterprise (for Client mode)
In a client role, the AWK-4121 can support three EAP methods (or EAP protocols): EAP-TLS,
EAP-TTLS, and EAP-PEAP, corresponding to WPA/WPA-Enterprise settings on the AP side.
Encryption method
Setting Description Factory Default
TKIP Temporal Key Integrity Protocol is
enabled
AES Advance Encryption System is
enabled
TKIP
EAP Protocol
Setting Description Factory Default
TLS Specifies Transport Layer Security
protocol
TTLS Specifies Tunneled Transport
Layer Security
PEAP Specifies Protected Extensible
Authentication Protocol, or
Protected EAP
TLS
Before choosing the EAP protocol for your WPA/WPA2-Enterpise settings on the client end,
please contact the network administrator to make sure the system supports the protocol on the AP
end. Detailed information on these three popular EAP protocols is presented in the following
sections:
EAP-TLS
TLS is the standards-based successor to the Secure Socket Layer (SSL). It can establish a trusted
communication channel over a distrusted network. TLS provides mutual authentication through
certificate exchange. EAP-TLS is also secure to use. You are required to submit a digital certificate
to the authentication server for validation, but the authentication server must also supply a
certificate.
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