ZyXEL Communications 10 User Manual

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ZyWALL 10~100 Series Internet Security Gateway

Wireless LAN with IEEE 802.1x

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• Support for RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In User Service, RFC 2138, 2139) for

centralized user profile and accounting management on a network RADIUS server.

• Support for EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol, RFC 2486) that allows additional

authentication methods to be deployed with no changes to the access point or the wireless clients.

RADIUS Server Authentication Sequence

The following figure depicts a typical wireless network with a remote RADIUS server for user authentication
using EAPOL (EAP Over LAN).

Diagram E-1 Sequences for EAP MD5–Challenge Authentication

Client computer

access authorized.

Client computer

access not

authorized.

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