ZyAIR Wireless Gateway Series User’s Guide

 

 

Table 7-5 Wireless LAN: 802.1x/WPA for 802.1x Protocol

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LABEL

 

DESCRIPTION

 

 

 

 

 

 

ReAuthentication

Specify how often wireless stations have to reenter usernames and passwords in

 

 

Timer

order to stay connected. This field is activated only when you select Authentication

 

 

(In Seconds)

Required in the Wireless Port Control field.

 

 

 

Enter a time interval between 10 and 9999 seconds. The default time interval is 1800

 

 

 

seconds (30 minutes).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

If wireless station authentication is done using a RADIUS

 

 

 

 

 

server, the reauthentication timer on the RADIUS server has

 

 

 

 

 

priority.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Idle Timeout

The ZyAIR automatically disconnects a wireless station from the wired network after

 

 

(In Seconds)

a period of inactivity. The wireless station needs to enter the username and password

 

 

again before access to the wired network is allowed.

 

 

 

 

 

 

This field is activated only when you select Authentication Required in the Wireless

 

 

 

Port Control field. The default time interval is 3600 seconds (or 1 hour).

 

 

Key Management

Choose 802.1x from the drop-down list.

 

 

Protocol

 

 

 

 

 

Dynamic WEP

This field is activated only when you select Authentication Required in the Wireless

 

 

Key Exchange

Port Control field. Also set the Authentication Databases field to RADIUS Only.

 

 

 

Local user database may not be used.

 

 

 

Select Disable to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access points

 

 

 

without using dynamic WEP key exchange.

 

 

 

Select 64-bit WEP or 128-bit WEP to enable data encryption.

 

 

 

Up to 32 stations can access the ZyAIR when you configure dynamic WEP key

 

 

 

exchange.

 

 

 

This field is not available when you set Key Management Protocol to WPA or WPA-

 

 

 

PSK.

 

 

 

This feature is not available on the ZyAIR B-2000.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Wireless Security

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