D-Link DWS-4026 [615/741] Mutual authentication

ConfiguringAdvancedSettings

D-Link UnifiedWiredandWirelessAccessSystem

November2011 Page615

D‐LinkUWSUserManual

MutualAuthentication

MutualAuthenticationprovidessecuritywhenaddingswitchesandAPstothewirelessnetwork.IfMutual

Authenticationmodeisenabled,theAPsandswitchesperformX.509MutualCertificateexchanges.Each

devicecomparesthecertificatereceivedfromtheremoteend‐pointwiththelocalcopyoftheremotedevice's

certificate.Ifthecertificatesdon'tma

tchthentheTransportLayerSecurity(TLS)connectionisdropped.

Figure395:MutualAuthentication

ThefollowingtableshowsthefieldsontheMutualAuthenticationpage.

CommandButtons

Thepageincludesthefollowingbuttons:

• Submit—Updatestheswitchwiththevaluesyouenter.Toretainthenewvaluesacr ossapowercycle,you

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tperformasave(Tool>SaveChanges).

• Refresh—Updatesthepagewiththelatestinformation.

Table359:MutualAuthentication

Field Description

SwitchProvisioningMode Whenthisfieldisenabled,switchescansendandreceiveprovisioningmessages.

Asasecurityfeature,youcandisableswitchprovisioning.Whenswitch

provisioningmodeisdisabledtheswitchdoesnotacceptprovisioningmessages.

NetworkMutual

AuthenticationMode

SelectEnabletorequiremutualauthenticationonthewirelessnetwork.When

Disableisselect

ed,mutualauthenticationisnotrequired.

Changingthisparameterononeswitchautomaticallyupdatestheconfiguration

onallotherswitchesintheclusterandallmanagedAPsinthecluster.

Whenthisfieldisenabled,switchprovisioningmustbeenabledinorderfornew

switchestobeaddedtotheclus

ter.Ifswitchprovisioningisdisabled,thecluster

willnotacceptcertificatesfromanewswitch.

UnmanagedAP

ReprovisioningMode

Whenthisfieldisenabled,theAPcanbere‐provisionedwhenitisnotmanaged.

Changingthisparameterononeswitchautomaticallyupdatestheconfiguration

onallotherswitches.Thispar

ameterisonlyapplicableifmutualauthentication

isenabled.