1x - network admission control – Bodyline Products International 216FD-V User Manual

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AXIS 216FD/FD-V - System Options

Notes:

•If the referrals feature is enabled and you wish to also allow normal access to the Live View

page, the product's own IP address or host name must be added to the list of allowed referrers.

•Restricting referrers has no effect on an MPEG-4 video stream. To restrict an MPEG-4 stream, IP

address filtering must be enabled.

•Restricting referrers is of greatest value when not using IP address filtering. If IP address filter-

ing is used, then the allowed referrers are automatically restricted to those allowed IP
addresses.

HTTPS
The AXIS 216FD/FD-V/MFD/MFD-V supports encrypted browsing using HTTPS.

A self-signed certificate can be used until a Certificate Authority-issued certificate has

been obtained. Click the Create self-signed Certificate button to install a self-signed

certificate. Although self-signed certificates are free and offer some protection, true

security will only be implemented after the installation of a signed certificate issued by a

certificate authority.

A signed certificate can be obtained from an issuing Certificate Authority by clicking the

Create Certificate Request button. When the signed certificate is returned, click the Install

signed certificate button to import the certificate. The properties of any certificate request

currently resident in the camera or installed can also be viewed by clicking the

Properties... button. The HTTPS Connection Policy must also be set in the drop-down lists

to enable HTTPS in the camera.

For more information, please refer to the online help.

802.1x - Network Admission Control

IEEE 802.1x is an IEEE standard for port-based Network Admission Control. It provides

authentication to devices attached to a network port (wired or wireless), establishing a

point-to-point connection, or, if authentication fails, preventing access on that port.

802.1x is based on EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol).

In a 802.1x enabled network switch, clients equipped with the correct software can be

authenticated and allowed or denied network access at the Ethernet level.

Clients and servers in an 802.1x network may need to authenticate each other by some

means. In the Axis implementation this is done with the help of digital certificates

provided by a Certification Authority. These are then validated by a third-party entity,

such as a RADIUS server, examples of which are Free Radius and Microsoft Internet

Authentication Service.

To perform the authentication, the RADIUS server uses various EAP methods/protocols, of

which there are many. The one used in the Axis implementation is EAP-TLS

(EAP-Transport Layer Security).

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