SWAN Infrastructure Authentication
The first phase of deploying a SWAN-enabled WLAN network is to enable infrastructure authentication between WDS client APs and the WDS server. The requirement for infrastructure authentication is to securely authenticate each WDS client AP (as well as each WLSE) to the WDS server and secure the communication between the WDS client APs and the WDS server. This also allows the WDS server to easily identify the authorized APs in a SWAN-enabled network.
Figure 9-3 illustrates the infrastructure authentication message exchange between WDS client APs, the WDS server, and the RADIUS server. The communication link between WLSE and the WDS server is also authenticated and authorized using infrastructure authentication. ...
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