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Appendix D Wireless LANs
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The following figure shows t he relat ive effect iveness of t hese w ireless security m et hods available on
your LTE Device.
Note: You m ust enable the sam e wireless security set tings on t he LTE Device and on all
wireless client s t hat you want t o associate wit h it .
IEEE 802.1x
I n June 2001, t he I EEE 802.1x st andard was designed t o ext end the feat ures of I EEE 802.11 t o
support ext ended aut hent icat ion as well as providing additional account ing and control features. I t
is support ed by Windows XP and a num ber of network devices. Som e advant ages of I EEE 802.1x
are:
• User based ident ification t hat allows for roam ing.
• Support for RADI US ( Rem ote Aut hent icat ion Dial I n User Service, RFC 2138, 2139) for
cent ralized user profile and accounting m anagem ent on a network RADI US server.
• Support for EAP ( Ext ensible Aut hent icat ion Prot ocol, RFC 2486) t hat allows addit ional
authent icat ion m ethods t o be deployed with no changes t o t he access point or t he wireless
clients.
RADIUS
RADI US is based on a client- server m odel t hat support s authentication, authorization and
account ing. The access point is the client and t he server is t he RADI US server. The RADI US server
handles t he following tasks:
• Aut hent icat ion
Determ ines t he ident ity of t he user s.
• Authorization
Determ ines t he network services available to aut hent icat ed users once t hey are connect ed t o t he
network.
• Account ing
Keeps t rack of t he client ’s net work act ivit y.
Table 86 Wireless Security Levels
SECURITY
LEVEL
SECURITY TYPE
Least
Secure
Most Secure
Unique SSI D ( Default)
Unique SSI D wit h Hide SSI D Enabled
MAC Address Filtering
WEP Encrypt ion
I EEE802.1x EAP with RADI US Ser ver Aut hent icat ion
Wi-Fi Prot ect ed Access ( WPA)
WPA2