
Authentication for a WM-AD
Summit WM-Series WLAN Switch and Altitude Access Point Software Version 1.0 User Guide
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The server name now appears in the list of configured servers (beside the Up and Down buttons)
where it can be prioritized for RADIUS redundancy. It can also be assigned again for MAC-based
authentication or accounting purposes.
A red asterisk appears in the right-hand list, showing that a server has been assigned.
4 Fill in the following fields:
5 In the Auth. Type field, select the authentication protocol to be used by the RADIUS server to
authenticate the wireless device users (for a WM-AD with Captive Portal authentication).
6 In the Include VSA Attributes area, click on the appropriate checkbox to include the Vendor Specific
Attributes in the message to the RADIUS server: AP Identification, WM-AD Identification, and
SSID Identification.
The Vendor Specific Attributes must be defined on the RADIUS Server.
7 If appropriate, click the Set as primary server checkbox on.
8 To save this configuration, click on Save.
NOTE
If you have already assigned a server to either MAC-based authentication or accounting, and wish to use it again
for authentication, highlight its name in the list beside the Up and Down buttons. Click the Use server for
Authentication checkbox on. The boxed area populates with fields about this server.
Define the RADIUS server priority for RADIUS redundancy
If more than one server has been defined for any type of authentication, you can define the priority of
the servers in the case of failover.
1 Select from the drop-down list: Configured Servers, Authentication Servers, MAC Servers,
Accounting Servers.
2 Highlight a RADIUS server in the list and use the Up or Down key to change the order.
The first server in the list is the active one. In the event of a failover of the main RADIUS server (if
no response after the set number of retries), then the other servers in the list will be polled on a
round-robin basis until one responds.
Port # The port used to access the RADIUS server (default: 1812)
# of Retries Number of times the Summit WM-Series Switch will attempt to access
the RADIUS server
Timeout The maximum time that a Summit WM-Series Switch will wait for a
response from the RADIUS server before attempting again
NAS Identifier Network Access Server (NAS) identifier, a RADIUS attribute that
identifies the server responsible for passing information to designated
RADIUS Servers and then acting on the response returned. [Optional]
PAP (Password Authentication Protocol)
CHAP (Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol)
MS CHAP (Windows-specific version of CHAP)
MS CHAP v2 (Windows-specific version of CHAP, version 2)
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