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(4) WPA & (5) 802.1x:
WPA provides for an additional authentication by means of a procedure described in
the IEEE 802.1x standard. In this case you do not use a keyword (pre-shared key) for
your wireless router. You should select the option 802.1x or WPA and then configure
your access to an authentication server. As an authentication server you can either use
the wireless router’ s internal RADIUS server (e.g. “tiny server”) or an external
RADIUS server.
EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol):
«PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol): A version of EAP. EAP
ensures mutual authentication between a wireless client and a server that resides at the
network operations center.
«LEAP (Light Extensible Authentication Protocol): A version of EAP. EAP ensures
mutual authentication between a wireless client and a server that resides at the
network operations center.
«TLS (Transport Layer Security): The successor to Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
protocol for ensuring privacy and data integrity between two communicating
applications.
Internal RADIUS server (e.g. “tiny server”):
Server in the wireless router which checks the access data of the participants. This
controls the logging in of users by means of User Name and Password.
Security Type: can select “WPA” (Encryption: “TKIP” or “AES”) or “802.1x”
options.
EAP should select “PEAP” option.
Certificate should select “None” option.
Tunnel should select “MS-CHAPv2” option.
The account information (User Name and Password) must be the same as your
wireless router’s setting.
Note: The selections of Security Type (network authentication) and Encryption must be
the same as wireless router’s configuration.