Nokia A032 User Manual

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Radius operation
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Radius operation
The use of a Radius server on the current AP 
range can be enabled using the web pages or 
via the command line, either through the serial 
port or via Telnet.
Once enabled, whenever a wireless station 
attempts to authenticate with the AP, the 
following interaction with the Radius server 
occurs:
The basic message flow between different 
external entities is shown above.
Station
AP
Radius Server
MAC (Auth. Req., seq=1)
Access-Req 
Access-Accept
MAC (challenge, seq=2)
username, password)
(optional encrypted
WEP key)
MAC (challenge response, 
MAC (Authentication Res,
seq=3)
seq=4)