22.6 802.1x Setting
Click“Authentication and Security”tab on the page of“Add Profile”and then click“802.1x Setting”, and the following picture will pop up. Please refer to the following instructions to configure GW-DS300N. The 802.1x authentication is mainly focus on“WPA”and“WPA2”encryption.
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Certification
Authentication Type 1.PEAP–Pronounced“peep”and short for Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol, a protocol developed jointly by Microsoft, RSA Security and Cisco for transmitting authentication data, including passwords, over 802.11 wireless networks. And it requires a set of user name and password in addition. Enter the“User Name”and “Password”and also select a certificate from the “Certificate”list. To get the certificate and the personal user name and password, please contact with your administrator.
2.TLS Smart Card–Short for Transport Layer Security, a protocol that guarantees privacy and data integrity between client/server applications communicating over the Internet.
3.TTLS–Short for Tunneled Transport Layer Security, and is an advanced TLS protocol.
4.Md5-Challenge–It is the easiest EAP Type. It requires the wireless station to enter a set of user name and password as the identity to RADIUS Server. (Only“Open”and“Shared”encryption mode can use this function.)
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