
iv Aruba AirOS Part 0500036-02
v2.3 User Guide January 2005
Chapter 4 Configuring Wireless LANs . . . . . . . . 33
Conceptual Overview. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
Configuring WLAN—802.11 Networks. . . . . . . . . 34
Pre-requisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
Configuring WLANs—Radio Configuration . . . . . . 41
Configuring WLANs—Advanced. . . . . . . . . . . . 43
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
Adaptive Radio Management . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
Deciding the Channel Setting. . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Deciding Power Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Advantages of Using ARM . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
Configuring ARM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
Chapter 5 Configuring Firewall Roles and Policies 51
Configuring Policies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Creating a New Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Editing an Existing Policy . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
Applying the Policy to a User Role . . . . . . . . . 60
Chapter 6 Configuring AAA Servers . . . . . . . . . 67
Authentication Timers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
Accessing the Configuration page . . . . . . . . . . 67
Authentication Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 69
RADIUS Server Configuration . . . . . . . . . . . 69
Editing an Existing Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
Deleting an Existing Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
LDAP Server Settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
Editing an Existing Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Deleting an Existing Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . 74
Internal Database. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
Editing an Existing Entry. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Deleting an Entry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
Configuring Server Rules . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
Chapter 7 Configuring the Captive Portal . . . . . 83
Configuring Captive Portals for Guest Logon . . . . . . 83
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
Configuring Captive Portal for User Logon . . . . . . . 88
Example . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
Personalizing the Captive Portal Page . . . . . . . . . . 94