ZyXEL Communications NWA-1100 User Manual

Chapter 8 RADIUS Screen

ZyXEL NWA-1100 User’s Guide

• Accounting which keeps track of the client’s network activity. 

RADIUS is a simple package exchange in which your AP acts as a message relay between the 
wireless client and the network RADIUS server. 
You should know the IP addresses, ports and share secrets of the external RADIUS server and/
or the external RADIUS accounting server you want to use with your ZyXEL Device. You can 
configure a primary and backup RADIUS and RADIUS accounting server for your ZyXEL 
Device.

Use this screen to set up your ZyXEL Device’s RADIUS server settings. Click Wireless > 
RADIUS. The screen appears as shown.

Figure 43   Wireless > RADIUS

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 25   Wireless > RADIUS

Primary

Configure the fields below to set up user authentication and accounting.

Backup

If the ZyXEL Device cannot communicate with the Primary accounting server, 

you can have the ZyXEL Device use a Backup RADIUS server. Make sure 

the Active check boxes are selected if you want to use backup servers.
The ZyXEL Device will attempt to communicate three times before using the 

Backup servers. Requests can be issued from the client interface to use the 

backup server. The length of time for each authentication is decided by the 

wireless client or based on the configuration of the ReAuthentication Timer 

field in the Security Settings screen.

RADIUS Option

Active

Select the check box to enable user authentication through an external 

authentication server. This check box is not available when you select 

Internal.

RADIUS Server IP 

Address

Enter the IP address of the external authentication server in dotted decimal 

notation. This field is not available when you select Internal.