Chapter 7 Wireless Security Configuration

7.10 Introduction to RADIUS

RADIUS is based on a client-sever model that supports authentication and accounting, where the access point is the client and the server is the RADIUS server. The RADIUS server handles the following tasks, among others:

•Authentication

Determines the identity of the users.

•Accounting

Keeps track of the client’s network activity.

The ZyXEL Device is equipped with an internal RADIUS server. See Section 13.1 on page 151 for more details.

7.11 Configuring RADIUS

Use RADIUS if you want to authenticate wireless users using the internal authentication server (see Section 13.1 on page 151) or an external server.

You can configure up to four RADIUS server profiles. Each profile also has one backup authentication server and a backup accounting server. These profiles can be assigned to an SSID profile in the SSID configuration screen

To set up your ZyXEL Device’s RADIUS server settings, click WIRELESS > RADIUS. The screen appears as shown.

Figure 64 RADIUS

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 34 RADIUS

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Index

Select the RADIUS profile you want to configure from the drop-down list box.

 

 

Profile Name

Type a name for the RADIUS profile associated with the Index number above.

 

 

Primary

Configure the fields below to set up user authentication and accounting.

 

 

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