User Guide
Table Of Contents
- Front
- Introduction
- Bridge GUI and Administrative Access
- 2.1 Bridge GUI
- 2.2 Administrative Accounts and Access
- 2.2.1 Global Administrator Settings
- 2.2.2 Individual Administrator Accounts
- 2.2.2.1 Administrator User Names
- 2.2.2.2 Account Administrative State
- 2.2.2.3 Administrative Role
- 2.2.2.4 Administrator Audit Requirement
- 2.2.2.5 Administrator Full Name and Description
- 2.2.2.6 Administrator Interface Permissions
- 2.2.2.7 Administrator Passwords and Password Controls
- 2.2.2.8 Adding Administrative Accounts
- 2.2.2.9 Editing Administrative Accounts
- 2.2.2.10 Deleting Administrative Accounts
- 2.2.2.11 Changing Administrative Passwords
- 2.2.2.12 Unlocking Administrator Accounts
- 2.2.3 Administrator IP Address Access Control
- 2.2.4 SNMP Administration
- Network and Radio Configuration
- 3.1 Network Interfaces
- 3.2 Bridging Configuration
- 3.3 Radio Settings
- 3.3.1 Advanced Global Radio Settings
- 3.3.2 Individual Radio Settings
- 3.3.3 DFS Operation and Channel Exclusion
- 3.3.4 Radio BSS Settings
- 3.3.4.1 BSS Administrative State and Name
- 3.3.4.2 BSS SSID and Advertise SSID
- 3.3.4.3 Wireless Bridge and Minimum RSS
- 3.3.4.4 User Cost Offset and FastPath Mesh Mode
- 3.3.4.5 BSS Switching Mode and Default VLAN ID
- 3.3.4.6 BSS G Band Only Setting
- 3.3.4.7 BSS WMM Setting
- 3.3.4.8 BSS DTIM Period
- 3.3.4.9 BSS RTS and Fragmentation Thresholds
- 3.3.4.10 BSS Unicast Rate Mode and Maximum Rate
- 3.3.4.11 BSS Multicast Rate
- 3.3.4.12 BSS Description
- 3.3.4.13 BSS Fortress Security Setting
- 3.3.4.14 BSS Wi-Fi Security Settings
- 3.3.4.15 Configuring a Radio BSS
- 3.3.5 ES210 Bridge STA Settings and Operation
- 3.3.5.1 Station Administrative State
- 3.3.5.2 Station Name and Description
- 3.3.5.3 Station SSID
- 3.3.5.4 Station BSSID
- 3.3.5.5 Station WMM
- 3.3.5.6 Station Fragmentation and RTS Thresholds
- 3.3.5.7 Station Unicast Rate Mode and Maximum Rate
- 3.3.5.8 Station Multicast Rate
- 3.3.5.9 Station Fortress Security Status
- 3.3.5.10 Station Wi-Fi Security Settings
- 3.3.5.11 Establishing an ES210 Bridge STA Interface Connection
- 3.3.5.12 Editing or Deleting the ES210 Bridge STA Interface
- 3.3.5.13 Enabling and Disabling ES210 Bridge Station Mode
- 3.4 Basic Network Settings Configuration
- 3.5 Location or GPS Configuration
- 3.6 DHCP and DNS Services
- 3.7 Ethernet Interface Settings
- 3.7.1 Port Administrative State
- 3.7.2 Port Speed and Duplex Settings
- 3.7.3 Port FastPath Mesh Mode and User Cost Offset
- 3.7.4 Port Fortress Security
- 3.7.5 Port 802.1X Authentication
- 3.7.6 Port Default VLAN ID and Port Switching Mode
- 3.7.7 Port QoS Setting
- 3.7.8 Port Power over Ethernet
- 3.7.9 Configuring Ethernet Ports
- 3.8 QoS Implementation
- 3.9 VLANs Implementation
- 3.10 ES210 Bridge Serial Port Settings
- Security, Access, and Auditing Configuration
- 4.1 Fortress Security
- 4.1.1 Operating Mode
- 4.1.2 MSP Encryption Algorithm
- 4.1.3 MSP Key Establishment
- 4.1.4 MSP Re-Key Interval
- 4.1.5 Access to the Bridge GUI
- 4.1.6 Secure Shell Access to the Bridge CLI
- 4.1.7 Blackout Mode
- 4.1.8 FIPS Self-Test Settings
- 4.1.9 Encrypted Data Compression
- 4.1.10 Encrypted Interface Cleartext Traffic
- 4.1.11 Encrypted Interface Management Access
- 4.1.12 Guest Management
- 4.1.13 Cached Authentication Credentials
- 4.1.14 Fortress Beacon Interval
- 4.1.15 Global Client and Host Idle Timeouts
- 4.1.16 Changing Basic Security Settings:
- 4.1.17 Fortress Access ID
- 4.2 Internet Protocol Security
- 4.3 Authentication Services
- 4.3.1 Authentication Server Settings
- 4.3.2 The Local Authentication Server
- 4.3.2.1 Local Authentication Server State
- 4.3.2.2 Local Authentication Server Port and Shared Key
- 4.3.2.3 Local Authentication Server Priority
- 4.3.2.4 Local Authentication Server Max Retries and Retry Interval
- 4.3.2.5 Local Authentication Server Default Idle and Session Timeouts
- 4.3.2.6 Local Authentication Server Global Device, User and Administrator Settings
- 4.3.2.7 Local 802.1X Authentication Settings
- 4.3.2.8 Configuring the Local RADIUS Server
- 4.3.3 Local User and Device Authentication
- 4.4 Local Session and Idle Timeouts
- 4.5 ACLs and Cleartext Devices
- 4.6 Remote Audit Logging
- 4.1 Fortress Security
- System and Network Monitoring
- System and Network Maintenance
- Index
- Glossary
Bridge GUI Guide: Introduction
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The term Bridge is used consistently throughout user guidance
to refer to both ES- and FC-series Fortress hardware devices.
Fortress Bridges provide network security by authenticating
access to the bridged network and bridging encrypted wireless
transmissions to the wired Local Area Network (and/or wired
communication within the LAN) and by authenticating and
encrypting Wireless Distribution System (WDS) links.
Fortress Bridges are variously equipped for network
connectivity. When one or more radio is present, the Bridge
can both provide and protect wireless connections. Fortress
devices without radios act as overlay security appliances for
wireless networks. All Fortress devices are equipped for wired
Ethernet with varying numbers of ports.
Table 1.1 shows the various hardware configurations and
capabilities of current Fortress hardware devices.
The ES210 is additionally equipped with a GPS (Global
Positioning System) receiver and associated antenna port.
1.3.1.1 ES-Series Model Numbers
Fortress ES-series model numbers provide information about
the product platform and the number and type of radio(s) it
contains. Figure 1 breaks down the model number for an
ES520-35 Secure Wireless Bridge.
Table 1.1. Radios and Ethernet Ports in Fortress Hardware Devices
series
Fortress
model
#
radios
radio
label
standard
equipment
4.4GHz
option
# Eth
ports
Eth port
HW label
Eth port
SW label
takes
PoE
serves
PoE
fiber
option
default
encryption
ES
ES820 2
Radio 1 802.11a/g/n no
2
Ethernet1 wan no no no encrypted
Radio 2 802.11a/n no Ethernet2 aux no no no clear
ES520 2
Radio 1 802.11a/g no
9
1–8 lan1–lan8 no yes no clear
Radio 2 802.11a yes WAN wan1 yes no no encrypted
ES440 4
Radio 1 802.11a/g/n no
2
Ethernet1 wan yes no no encrypted
Radio 2–
Radio 4
802.11a/n no Ethernet2 aux no no no clear
ES210 1 Radio 1 802.11a/g/n no 2
Ethernet aux no no no clear
Ethernet (WAN) wan no no no encrypted
FC
FC-X 0n/a3
Encrypted enc no no yes encrypted
Unencrypted clr no no yes clear
AUX aux no no no clear