ZyXEL Communications 320W manual Using External Radius Authentication Server

P320W Support Notes

1.From the Web Configurator main menu, go to Network > Wireless LAN > General

2.Select 802.1x+Dynamic WEP to enable 802.1x authentication function.

3.Click Apply to make your setting work.

After 802.1x authentication function is enabled, you have to setup the authentication server, you need to specify the location and port of an external RADIUS authentication server.

•Using External RADIUS Authentication Server

RADIUS is based on a client-server model that supports authentication, authorization and accounting. The wireless AP is the client and the server is the RADIUS server.

The authenticator includes the RADIUS client, which is responsible for encapsulating and decapsulating the Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) frames and interacting with the authentication server. When the authenticator receives EAPOL frames and relays them to the authentication server, the Ethernet header is stripped and the remaining EAP frame is re-encapsulated in the RADIUS format. The EAP frames are not modified or examined during encapsulation, and the authentication server must support EAP within the native frame format. When the authenticator receives frames from the authentication server, the server’s frame header is removed, leaving the EAP frame, which is then encapsulated for Ethernet and sent to the supplicant.

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