ZyXEL ADSL Prestige 662HW-61 130122.0662HW61 Manual Do Utilizador

Prestige 662H/HW Series User’s Guide

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Chapter 8 Wireless LAN Setup

You can set the Prestige and your network to authenticate a wireless station before the wireless 
station can communicate with the Prestige and the wired network to which the Prestige is 
connected. 

EAP is an authentication protocol designed originally to run over PPP (Point-to-Point 
Protocol) frame in order to support multiple types of user authentication. By using EAP to 
interact with an EAP-compatible RADIUS server, the access point helps a wireless station and 
a RADIUS server to perform mutual authentication. 

RADIUS is based on a client-sever model that supports authentication, authorization and 
accounting. The access point is the client and the server is the RADIUS server. The RADIUS 
server handles the following tasks:

• Authentication 

Determines the identity of the users.

• Authorization

Determines the network services available to authenticated users once they are connected 
to the network.

• Accounting

Keeps track of the client’s network activity. 

RADIUS is a simple package exchange in which your Prestige acts as a message relay 
between the wireless station and the network RADIUS server. 

The following types of RADIUS messages are exchanged between the access point and the 
RADIUS server for user authentication:

• Access-Request

Sent by an access point requesting authentication.

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Table 18   MAC Address Filter (continued)