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AT-WA7500 User’s Guide
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Note
If you use an EAS, you must use the EAS on a newer access point
and your end devices must be running the EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, or
PEAP supplicant.
For help, see Chapter 7, Configuring the Embedded
Authentication Server (EAS) on page 175.
‰ An authenticator, which is an access point on your network. The
authenticator receives requests from end devices that want to
communicate with the network and forwards these requests to
the authentication server. The authenticator also distributes the
WEP keys to end devices that are communicating with it.
‰ End devices that are 802.1x-enabled. These end devices have an
802.11b or an 802.11a radio and a supplicant (EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS
or PEAP) loaded on them. Supplicants allow your end devices to
request communication with the authenticator using a specific
EAP authentication type.
If the access point has two radios, you can implement 802.1x security on
one radio network or both radio networks, as long as the radio supports
802.1x security. For example, you have some end devices that have a
supplicant, but you also have some end devices that do not have a
supplicant. You can configure one 802.11b radio to use 802.1x
authorization and the other 802.11b radio to use an ACL.