Chapter 12 AP Profile

Table 57 SSID > Security Profile > Add/Edit Security Profile (continued)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Primary /

Select the check box to enable user accounting through an external

Secondary

authentication server.

Accounting

 

Server Activate

 

 

 

Accounting

Enter the IP address of the external accounting server in dotted

Server IP

decimal notation.

Address

 

Accounting

Enter the port number of the external accounting server. The default

Server Port

port number is 1813. You need not change this value unless your

 

network administrator instructs you to do so with additional

 

information.

 

 

Accounting

Enter a password (up to 128 alphanumeric characters) as the key to

Share Secret

be shared between the external accounting server and the NWA3000-

 

N series AP. The key must be the same on the external accounting

 

server and your NWA3000-N series AP. The key is not sent over the

 

network.

 

 

Reauthentication

Enter the interval (in seconds) between authentication requests. Enter

Timer

a 0 for unlimited requests.

 

 

Idle Timeout

Enter the idle interval (in seconds) that a client can be idle before

 

authentication is discontinued.

 

 

Authentication

Select a WEP authentication method. Choices are Open or Share key.

Type

Share key is only available if you are not using 802.1x.

 

 

Key Length

Select the bit-length of the encryption key to be used in WEP

 

connections.

 

If you select WEP-64:

 

• Enter 10 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9”

 

(for example, 0x11AA22BB33) for each Key used.

 

or

 

• Enter 5 ASCII characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-Z”

 

and “0-9” (for example, MyKey) for each Key used.

 

If you select WEP-128:

 

• Enter 26 hexadecimal digits in the range of “A-F”, “a-f” and “0-9”

 

(for example, 0x00112233445566778899AABBCC) for each Key

 

used.

 

or

 

• Enter 13 ASCII characters (case sensitive) ranging from “a-z”, “A-

 

Z” and “0-9” (for example, MyKey12345678) for each Key used.

 

 

Key 1~4

Based on your Key Length selection, enter the appropriate length

 

hexadecimal or ASCII key.

 

 

PSK

Select this option to use a Pre-Shared Key with WPA encryption.

 

 

Pre-Shared Key

Enter a pre-shared key of between 8 and 63 case-sensitive ASCII

 

characters (including spaces and symbols) or 64 hexadecimal

 

characters.

 

 

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