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8. Authentication for the LAN Access Profile
The AXIS 9010 has support for RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User
Service). RADIUS enables you to consolidate the management of all your remote
users and enhance the security of your network. RADIUS is an encrypted protocol
that provides authentication, authorization and accounting of user access in a
network. It supports encrypted exchange of credentials between the remote
end-user and the authentication server.
User credentials are forwarded to a RADIUS server, which in turn manages a
credentials database. The login parameters in the
Bluetooth
client, user ID and
password are the input to the RADIUS server. The server checks the user ID and
password, then replies with the access privileges for the user.
Authentication checks user credentials to verify the user’s identity. Authorization
controls user privileges and access restrictions. Accounting keeps track of the
amount of bytes and time for each connected session.
The RADIUS server can also handle the IP address assignment to the
Bluetooth
clients. If you use Automatic IP setting for the client and you activate RADIUS, the
IP addresses for the
Bluetooth
clients will primarily be assigned by the RADIUS
server and secondly by the DCHP server.
You activate the RADIUS function in the AXIS 9010 Web interface.
