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RADIUS Screen, 9.1 Overview, 9.2 What You Can Do in this What You Need to Know, Overview
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CHAPTER 9 RADIUS Screen 9.1 Overview This chapter describes how you can use the Wireless > RADIUS screen. Remote Authentication Dial In User Service (RADIUS) is a protocol that can be used to manage user access to large networks. It is based on a client-server model that supports authentication, authorization and accounting. The access point is the client and the server is the RADIUS server. Figure 45 RADIUS Server Setup In the figure above, wireless clients A and B are trying to access the Internet via the NWA. The NWA in turn queries the RADIUS server if the identity of clients A and U are allowed access to the Internet. In this scenario, only client U's identity is verified by the RADIUS server and allowed access to the Internet. 9.2 What You Can Do in this Chapter Use the Security > RADIUS screen if you want to authenticate wireless users using a RADIUS Server and/or Accounting Server (see Section 8.4.1 on page 89). 9.3 What You Need to Know The RADIUS server handles the following tasks: • Authentication which determines the identity of the users. • Authorization which determines the network services available to authenticated users once they are connected to the network. NWA1100-N User's Guide 99