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wireless network setup

chapter 15

Authentication	Authentication verifies the identity of a user or device before
	granting access to the network, making it more difficult for
	unauthorized users to get at network resources. The 802.11
	standard supports several means of client authentication:
	• A network with No Authentication (Open System) does
	not screen network users based on their identities and
	usually involves little more than supplying the correct
	SSID.
	• A network using Shared Key authentication provides
	increased security by requiring users or devices to
	identify themselves with a static key (a hexidecimal or
	alphanumeric string).
	• Server-based (EAP/802.1x) authentication provides
	significantly stronger security, and is commonly used in
	enterprise-level networks. A dedicated server verifies
	the identity of a user or device requesting access to the
	network before granting that access. Several different
	wireless authentication protocols are available for use
	on authentication servers (EAP-MD5, EAP-TLS,
	EAP-TTLS, LEAP, and PEAP), and a network might have
	more than one protocol in use. EAP-MD5 uses WEP
	encryption and all the other EAP mechanisms use
	dynamic encryption.
	Note: Server-based authentication protocols must be
	implemented through the HP PSC embedded Web
	server.
AutoIP (APIPA)	Automatic Private IP Addressing. With APIPA, DHCP clients
	can self-configure an IP address and subnet mask when a
	DHCP server isn’t available.
	When a DHCP client boots up, it first looks for a DHCP server
	in order to obtain an IP address and subnet mask. If the client
	is unable to find the information, it uses APIPA to
	automatically configure itself with an IP address from a range
	reserved especially for Microsoft. The IP address range is
	169.254.0.1 through 169.254.255.254. The client also
	configures itself with a default class B subnet mask of
	255.255.0.0. A client uses the self-configured IP address
	until a DHCP server becomes available.
CIFS	Common Internet File System. This provides network drive
	letter access to the photo memory card on the AiO device.
	The user is allowed to read/write files on the network from
	the AiO device photo memory card.
DHCP Server	Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol server. This is a server
	that dynamically manages a pool of IP addresses for use on
	a network or the Internet. When a user logs into the network
	he is loaned an IP address for the time he is attached to the
	network. When a user logs off, the IP address is returned to
	the pool for use by another device.

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