User guide

Odyssey Access Client User Guide
62  Adding or Modifying Network Properties
Authentication Settings
Use the Authentication fields to specify whether or not to use 802.1X
authentication for the network and how to generate encryption keys.
Authenticating with a Profile
To authenticate using your personal credentials:
1. Select Authenticate using profile.
2. Select the name of profile to use for authentication from the drop-down list
next to the Authenticate using profile check box. You must have configured a
profile previously that is appropriate for authenticating to this network.
Use this configuration setting if you are using an EAP protocol that requires user
authentication, such as EAP-TTLS or EAP-PEAP. Contact your network administrator
about which EAP protocol has been implemented on your network.
When you select Authenticate using profile and select a profile from the list of
profiles next to the Authenticate using profile check box, OAC performs an 802.1X
authentication using the options configured in the selected profile.
Automatic Key Generation
If the authentication method specified in the selected profile results in the creation
of dynamic WEP keys for use between your PC and the access point, select Keys
will be generated automatically for data privacy. Certain authentication methods,
such as EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP, EAP-FAST, EAP-POTP, and EAP-TLS, generate keys;
others do not.
If you associate this network with a profile that uses EAP-TTLS, EAP-PEAP,
EAP-FAST, EAP-POTP, or EAP-TLS as an authentication protocol, select this box. You
can use any of these authentication methods if your access point implements
802.1X authentication.
This option is more secure than using static (preconfigured) keys and is available
with all encryption methods (other than None), as long as you are not associating in
shared mode.
Leave this option cleared if you are required to use preconfigured WEP keys or, in
the case of WPA association, a preshared key.
Preconfigured Key Settings
The wireless network might require that you preconfigure WEP keys or that you
preshare a passphrase in the case of WPA or WPA2 association.
You can enter keys in the lower portion of your network properties description,
based on the selected association method.
NOTE: If the profile you select for this network specifies MD-5 Challenge or
EAP-GenericTokenCard as an outer authentication method, you must use a
preconfigured WEP key for data encryption to authenticate using 802.1X. See
“Preconfigured Keys (WEP)” on page 63.