AP-5131 Access Point Product Reference Guide
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7. Select the Accounting tab as required to define a timeout period and retry interval Syslog for MUs interoperating with the AP-5131 and EAP authentication server. The items within this tab could be enabled or disabled depending on whether internal or External has been selected from the Radius Server drop-down menu.8. Select the Reauthentication tab as required to define authentication connection policies, intervals and maximum retries. The items within this tab are identical regardless of whether Internal or External is selected from the Radius Server drop-down menu.
Internal/External
Accounting
If using an Internal Radius server, select Disabled (no Internal
Accounting), Internal Only or Both Internal and External.
Selecting Both Internal and External displays additional
parameters for configuring the External Radius Server.
If using an External Radius server, simply select Enable or Disable
to allow or deny external accounting with the external Radius
server.
External Radius
Server Address
Specify the IP address of the external Radius server used to provide
Radius accounting.
External Radius Port Specify the port on which the Radius server is listening.
External Radius
Shared Secret
Specify a shared secret for authentication. The shared secret is
required to match the shared secret on the Radius server.
MU Timeout Specify the time (in seconds) for the AP-5131’s retransmission of
EAP-Request packets. The default is 10 seconds. If this time is
exceeded, the authetnication session is terminated.
Retries Specify the number of retries for the MU to retransmit a missed
frame to the Radius server before it times out of the authentication
session. The default is 2 retries.
Enable Syslog Select the Enable Syslog checkbox to enable syslog messages
relating to EAP events to be written to the specified syslog server.
Syslog Server IP
Address
Enter the IP address of the destination syslog server to be used to
log EAP events.
Enable
Reauthentication
Select the Enable Reauthentication checkbox to configure a
wireless connection policy so MUs are forced to reauthenticate
periodically. Periodic repetition of the EAP process provides
ongoing security for current authorized connections.