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ZyAIR G-1000 Access Point
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supports authentication, authorization and accounting. The access point (ZyAIR) is the client and the server
is the RADIUS server. RADIUS is a simple package exchange in which your ZyAIR acts as a message
relay between the wireless station and the network RADIUS server. In order to ensure network security, the
access point and the RADIUS server use a shared secret key, which is a password, they both know. The key
is not sent over the network. In addition to the shared key, password information exchanged is also
encrypted to protect the network from unauthorized access. By using EAP to interact with an EAP-
compatible RADIUS server, the access point helps a wireless station and a RADIUS server to perform
mutual authentication.
To authenticate wireless users without interacting with a network RADIUS server, you can store user
profiles locally. The ZyAIR first checks the local user database, then use the user database on the RADIUS
server to authenticate wireless stations. To change your ZyAIR’s local user list, click WIRELESS, then the
Local User Database tab.
If you do enable the EAP authentication, you need to specify the local user database or the external sever
for remote user authentication. To set up your ZyAIR’s local user database, click WIRELESS, then the
Local User Database tab. To set up your ZyAIR’s RADIUS server settings, click WIRELESS, then the
RADIUS tab.