guides:simple_wpa_enterprise_wlan_configuration

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Simple WPA Enterprise WLAN Configuration

This quick start guide assumes a network with UniFi APs and a UniFi Security Gateway.

Create an SSID with WPA Enterprise (WPA/EAP) authentication using the RADIUS server built into the UniFi Security Gateway by logging into the UniFi controller, opening the Settings, and configuring these options:

  1. Under Services > RADIUS > Server, set Enable RADIUS Server to On.
  2. Under Services > RADIUS > Server, enter a suitably complex Secret (used only for the APs to communicate with the RADIUS server, not by network clients) and apply the changes.
  3. Under Services > RADIUS > Users, create a new user, enter the Name and Password which the user will enter on their devices to connect to the SSID, and save the user.
  4. Under Wireless Networks, create a new network, enter an SSID, select WPA Enterprise for Security, and set RADIUS Profile to Default, and save the network settings.

These settings will provide a basic working configuration.

To use RADIUS-assigned VLANs with the WPA/EAP SSID, these additional settings must be configured:

  1. Under Profiles > RADIUS > Default, check Enable RADIUS assigned VLAN for wireless network and save the changes.
  2. Under Services > RADIUS > Users > username, enter a VLAN ID to assign that user to a VLAN (leave blank for the untagged VLAN).
  3. Under Services > RADIUS > Users > username, set Tunnel Type to 13 - Virtual LANs
  4. Under Services > RADIUS > Users > username, set Tunnel Medium Type to 6 - 802

Note that if a VLAN is assigned to another SSID, it may not also be assigned dynamically to a WPA/EAP SSID on the same access point.

For further information, refer to Ubiquiti's Intro to Networking - AAA, 802.1X, EAP & RADIUS.


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