Installation Guide

Table Of Contents
Task 15: Configuring a RADIUS server
Task 15: Configuring a RADIUS server
Configuring a RADIUS server in a PMP 450i network is optional, but can provide
added security, increase ease of network management and provide usage-based
billing data.
Understanding RADIUS for
PMP 450i
PMP 450i modules include support for the RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial In
User
Service)
protocol supporting Authentication and Accounting.
RADIUS
Functions
RADIUS protocol support provides the
following
functions:
SM Authentication allows only known SMs onto the network (blocking
“rogue”
SMs), and can be configured to ensure SMs are connecting to a known
network
(preventing SMs from connecting to “rogue” APs). RADIUS authentication is
used
for
SMs,
but
is not used for APs.
SM Configuration: Configures authenticated SMs with MIR (Maximum Information
Rate), CIR (Committed Information Rate), High Priority, and VLAN (Virtual LAN)
parameters from the RADIUS server when a SM registers to an AP.
SM Accounting provides support for RADIUS accounting messages for usage-based
billing. This accounting includes indications for subscriber session establishment,
subscriber session disconnection, and bandwidth usage per session for each SM that
connects to the AP.
Centralized AP and SM user name and password management allows AP
and
SM usernames and access levels (Administrator, Installer, Technician) to
be
centrally
administered in the RADIUS server instead of on each radio and tracks
access
events
(logon/logoff) for each username on the RADIUS server. This accounting does
not
track and
report
specific configuration actions performed on radios or pull statistics
such as
bit
counts from the radios. Such functions require an Element Management
System
(EMS) such as Cambium Networks Wireless Manager. This accounting is
not
the ability to perform accounting functions on the subscriber/end
user/customer
account.
Framed IP
allows o
perators to use a RADIUS server to assign management IP
addressing to SM modules (framed IP address).
Tested RADIUS Servers
The Canopy RADIUS implementation has been tested and is supported
on
FreeRADIUS, Version
2.1.8
Aradial RADIUS, Version
5.1.12
184
pmp-0957 (April 2015)