Configuring The Radius Server For Vlan Tags - D-Link DWL-8500AP - AirPremier AG Wireless Switching 108 Dualband Access Point Administrator's Manual

D-Link Unified Access Point Administrator's Guide
8. Click "Install this certificate" to install the newly issued certificate on your client station.
(Also, click "Yes" on the popup windows to confirm the install and to add the certificate to
the Root Store.)
A success message is displayed indicating the certificate is now installed on the client.

Configuring the RADIUS Server for VLAN Tags

A VLAN is a grouping of ports on a switch or a grouping of ports on different switches.
Dynamic VLANs allow you to assign a user to a VLAN, and switches dynamically use this
information to configure the port on the switch automatically. Selection of the VLAN is
usually based on the identity of the user. The RADIUS server informs the network access
server (NAS), which might be the access point, of the selected VLAN as part of the
authentication. This setup enables users of Dynamic VLANs to move from one location to
another without intervention and without having to make any changes to the switches.
In the case of the Unified Access Point, if you configure an external RADIUS server on the
VAP page, then an External RADIUS server will try to authenticate the user. A user's
authentication credentials are passed to a RADIUS server. If these credentials are found to be
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