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Chapter 4 WLAN Settings
NXC-8160 User’s Guide
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4.2.2.4 WPA-Personal/WPA2-Personal
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a subset of the IEEE 802.11i standard. WPA2 (IEEE
802.11i) is a wireless security standard that defines stronger encryption, authentication and
key management than WPA. The key differences between WPA(2) and WEP are improved
data encryption and user authentication.
If both the NXC-8160 and the wireless clients connected to it support WPA2, using WPA-
Personal only requires a single (identical) password entered into each access point, wireless
gateway and wireless client. As long as the passwords match, a wireless client is granted
access to the NXC-8160 WLAN.
From the Method menu, select WPA-Personal/WPA2-Personal to display the following
parameters.
Figure 18 Security: WPA-Personal/WPA2-Personal
RADIUS Server
(1-4) The NXC-8160 can use an external RADIUS server to authenticate users. RADIUS
servers are checked in order from 1 to 4 (for example, if server 1 is not found or
authentication fails then the NXC-8160 tries server 2, and so on).
Select a RADIUS server from the list. You can configure a list of RADIUS servers
on the
WLAN > ESSID Definition > RADIUS screen. For more information, see
Section 4.4 on page 56 .
WPA2 Only This field is disabled for the static WEP64 + 802.11x Authentication and WEP128
+ 802.11x Authentication options. For more information its usage, see Section
4.2.2.4 on page 52 and Section 4.2.2.5 on page 53 .
TKIP Only This field is disabled for the static WEP64 + 802.11x Authentication and WEP128
+ 802.11x Authentication options. For more information its usage, see Section
4.2.2.4 on page 52 and Section 4.2.2.5 on page 53 .
Table 13 Security: Static WEP + IEEE 802.1x Authentication (continued)
LABEL DESCRIPTION