Configuring your machine for a network

IEEE 802.1x Authentication

IEEE 802.1x is an IEEE standard for wired and wireless networks that limits access from unauthorized network devices. Your Brother machine (supplicant) sends an authentication request to a RADIUS server (Authentication server) through your access point (authenticator). After your request has been verified by the RADIUS server, your machine can access the network.

Authentication methods

 

LEAP (For wireless network)

 

Cisco LEAP (Lightweight Extensible Authentication Protocol) has been developed by Cisco Systems, Inc.

 

which uses a user ID and password for authentication.

 

EAP-FAST

 

EAP-FAST (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Flexible Authentication via Secured Tunneling) has been

 

developed by Cisco Systems, Inc. which uses a user ID and password for authentication, and symmetric

 

key algorithms to achieve a tunneled authentication process.

 

The Brother machine supports the following inner authentication methods:

 

• EAP-FAST/NONE

 

• EAP-FAST/MS-CHAPv2

 

• EAP-FAST/GTC

 

EAP-MD5 (For wired network)

 

EAP-MD5 (Extensible Authentication Protocol-Message Digest Algorithm 5) uses a user ID and password

 

for challenge-response authentication.

 

PEAP

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PEAP (Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol) has been developed by Microsoft Corporation, Cisco

Systems and RSA Security. PEAP creates an encrypted SSL (Secure Sockets Layer)/TLS (Transport Layer Security) tunnel between a client and an authentication server, for sending a user ID and password. PEAP provides mutual authentication between the server and the client.

The Brother machine supports the following inner authentications:

• PEAP/MS-CHAPv2

• PEAP/GTC

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