User's Manual

PEAP Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol (PEAP) is an
Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) draft protocol
sponsored by Microsoft, Cisco, and RSA Security. PEAP
creates an encrypted tunnel similar to the tunnel used in
secure web pages (SSL). Inside the encrypted tunnel, a
number of other EAP authentication methods can be used to
perform client authentication. PEAP requires a TLS certificate
on the RADIUS server, but unlike EAP-TLS there is no
requirement to have a certificate on the client. PEAP has not
been ratified by the IETF. The IETF is currently comparing
PEAP and TTLS (Tunneled TLS) to determine an
authentication standard for 802.1X authentication in 802.11
wireless systems. PEAP is an authentication type designed to
take advantage of server-side EAP-Transport Layer Security
(EAP-TLS) and to support various authentication methods,
including user's passwords and one-time passwords, and
Generic Token Cards.
Peer-to-Peer
Mode
A wireless network structure that allows wireless clients to
communicate with each other without using an access point.
Power Save
mode
The state in which the radio is periodically powered down to
conserve power. When the notebook is in Power Save mode,
receive packets are stored in the access point until the
wireless adapter wakes up.
Preferred
network
One of the networks that has been configured. Such
networks are listed under Preferred networks on the Wireless
Networks tab of the Wireless Configuration Utility (Windows
2000 environment) or Wireless Network Connection
Properties (Windows XP environment).
RADIUS Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) is an
authentication and accounting system that verifies users
credentials and grants access to requested resources.