11g Wireless LAN USB 2.0 Client Adapter
Version 1.0
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must match the
Server Name
parameter exactly or if only the sub domain
must match.
h
Tunneled Authentication / Username
: Enter the user name.
h
Tunneled Authentication / Password
: Enter the password.
h
Authentication
: Select an authentication method from the drop-down list.
h
Enable WPA:
Place a check in this box if you would like to enable the WPA
function.
WPA
(Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the
security features of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is
designed to work with existing Wi-Fi products that have been enabled with
WEP. WPA provides improved data encryption through the Temporal
Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the keys using a hashing
algorithm and by adding an integrity-checking feature which makes sure that
keys haven’t been tampered with.
h
Authentication Mode
: select an authentication mode from the drop-down
list. Options available are
Open
,
Shared
, or
AutoSwitch
. Select
AutoSwitch
if you would like the device to automatically switch between
Open and Shared authentication mode.
h
Click
on
the
Apply
button to save the changes.
3.5.5 PEAP
h
Authentication Type
: If your network uses PEAP to authenticate its users,
select
PEAP
from the drop down list.
PEAP
(Protected Extensible
Authentication Protocol) is a protocol developed jointly by Microsoft, RSA
Security, and Cisco for transmitting authentication data, including passwords
over an 802.11 wireless network. PEAP authenticates wireless LAN clients
using only server-side digital certificates by creating an SSL/TLS tunnel
