This article answers whether EAP-TTLS authentication is supported on Anybus Wireless Bolt/Bridge Products.
APPLICABLE PRODUCTS
Anybus Wireless Bolt/Bolt II
Anybus Wireless Bridge II
QUESTIONS
1- Do we have a web server certificate for the Bolt?
2- Do we support EAP-TLS authentication on Anybus Wireless Bolt/Bridge Products?
3- Is there a way to use certified WPA2-EAP on the Anybus Wireless Bridge?
ANSWERS
Short answer: There's no support for Web server certificate based authentication in Bolt/Bridge.
Long answer: When connecting as a client, there's support for PEAP-MSCHAPv2, which stands for “Protected Extensible Authentication Protocol with Microsoft Challenge Handshake Authentication Protocol”. This means that authentication is done with credentials (username/password), protected by a TLS tunnel. At the server end, there will be a certificate for creating the TLS tunnel, but no certificate is used for the actual authentication.
Certificate based authentication is referred to as EAP-TLS, which we have no support for.
Based on the technical specifications, these are supported type of security:
WPA, WPA2-Personal and WPA3-Personal.
In short, we don't support uploading a certificate on the Bolt or Bridge manually (Protocol WPA2-EAP-TLS), but we support normal enterprise authentication (WPA2-Enterprise) including radius login.
ADDITIONAL INFO
You can find more information on the technical specifications for our wireless products via the following link: https://www.anybus.com/products/wireless-solutions