NETGEAR FVS318G manual Configuring Radius Clients for Xauth

ProSafe Gigabit 8 Port VPN Firewall FVS318G Reference Manual

2.Enter a User Name. This is the unique ID of a user which will be added to the User Name database.

3.Enter a Password for the user, and reenter the password in the Confirm Password field.

4.Click add. The user name will be added to the Configured Users table.

To edit the user name or password:

1.Click the edit button adjacent to the user that you want to modify. The Edit User screen displays.

2.Make the required changes to the User Name or Password.

3.Click Reset to cancel your changes or click Apply to save your settings and return to the previous settings. The modified user name and password displays in the Configured Users table.

Configuring RADIUS Clients for XAUTH

RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service, RFC 2865) is a protocol for managing Authentication, Authorization and Accounting (AAA) of multiple users in a network. A RADIUS server will store a database of user information, and can validate a user at the request of a gateway or server in the network when a user requests access to network resources. During the establishment of a VPN connection, the VPN gateway can interrupt the process with an XAUTH (eXtended AUTHentication) request. At that point, the remote user must provide authentication information such as a username/password or some encrypted response using his username/ password information. The gateway will try and verify this information first against a local User Database (if RADIUS-PAP is enabled) and then by relaying the information to a central authentication server such as a RADIUS server.

To configure RADIUS servers:

1.Select VPN from the main menu and VPN Client from the submenu. The User Database screen displays (see Figure 5-30 on page 5-41).

2.Select the RADIUS Client tab. The RADIUS Client screen displays (see Figure 5-31 on page 5-43).

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