User's Manual Part 1

Configuring Network Settings
Chapter 5: Managing Your Network 111
In this field… Do this…
Security Select the security protocol to use:
your
network.
This option is not recommended, due to
known security flaws.
this option, the WEP Keys
and you must configure at
ents
must be configured with this key as well.
cation, no encryption
ess point
in
To use this security method, you must
servers. See Using
RADIUS Authentication. on page 252
• None - No security method is used. This
option is not recommended, because it
allows unauthorized users to access
• WEP encryption - In the WEP (Wired
Equivalent Privacy) encryption security
method, wireless clients must use a pre-
shared key to connect to your network.
If you select
area opens,
least one WEP key. The wireless cli
• 802.1X: RADIUS authenti
- In the 802.1x security method, wireless
clients (supplicants) attempting to
connect to the acc
(authenticator) must first be authenticated
by RADIUS servers (authentication
servers). All messages are passed
EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol).
configure RADIUS