The Clients page contains a list of clients—such as wireless routers or VPN servers—that are allowed to make requests of RADIUS Server for authentication, authorization, and accounting. For each client, you must enter a client IP address along with a secret key, which is a text string used as a password between RADIUS clients and RADIUS Server. Secret keys should be configured on both clients and RADIUS Server.
Two methods are available for adding clients: 1) single IP address and 2) IP address range.
With this procedure, you must add clients by entering specific IP addresses, which provides better security than the IP address range procedure does.
Click Add, choose Single host and enter the following information:
This procedure allows you to add a large number of RADIUS clients at a time, rather than adding each RADIUS client individually. You can add a group of clients that are all configured with IP addresses from the same subnet. All of the RADIUS clients in the range must use the same configuration and secret key.
The following guidelines are here to help you specify an IP address range:
IP address | Subnet mask | Secret key |
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192.168.1.1 | 255.255.255.0 | 12345678 |
192.168.1.1 | 255.255.0.0 | 87654321 |
IP address | Subnet mask | Secret key |
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192.168.1.1 | 255.255.255.0 | 12345678 |
192.168.1.2 | 255.255.255.0 | 87654321 |
Click Add, choose Subnet and enter the following information:
Client name must be of 1 to 32 Unicode characters and must not contain the following characters:
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