Chapter 6: System Security; Radius Server - Cisco WAP371 Administration Manual

System Security

RADIUS Server

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Cisco Small Business WAP371 Wireless Access Point Administration Guide
This chapter describes how to configure security settings on the AP device.
It contains these topics:
• RADIUS Server
• 802.1X Supplicant
• Password Complexity
• WPA-PSK Complexity
Several features require communication with a RADIUS authentication server. For example,
when you configure Virtual Access Points (VAPs) on the AP, you can configure security
methods that control wireless client access (see the
Enterprise security methods use an external RADIUS server to authenticate clients. The MAC
address filtering feature, where client access is restricted to a list, may also be configured to
use a RADIUS server to control access. The Captive Portal feature also uses RADIUS to
authenticate clients.
You can use the Radius Server page to configure the RADIUS servers that are used by these
features. You can configure up to four globally available IPv4 or IPv6 RADIUS servers;
however, you must select whether the RADIUS client operates in IPv4 or IPv6 mode with
respect to the global servers. One of the servers always acts as a primary while the others act as
backup servers.
In addition to using the global RADIUS servers, you can also configure each VAP to use a
specific set of RADIUS servers. See the
To configure global RADIUS servers:
Radio page). The Dynamic WEP and WPA
Networks page.
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