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Chapter 13: Configuring Security
Configuring Security Settings: Broadcast SSID, Station Isolation, and Security Mode
Note: You can also allow or prohibit the Broadcast SSID and enable/disable
Station Isolation as extra precautions as mentioned below.)
Field Description
Broadcast SSID Select the Broadcast SSID setting by clicking the Allow or Prohibit radio button.
By default, the access point broadcasts (allows) the Service Set Identifier (SSID) in its beacon frames.
You can suppress (prohibit) this broadcast to discourage stations from automatically discovering your
access point. When the AP’s broadcast SSID is suppressed, the network name will not be displayed
in the List of Available Networks on a client station. Instead, the client must have the exact network
name configured in the supplicant before it will be able to connect.
Station Isolation Select Off to disable Station Isolation or On to enable it.
• When Station Isolation is Off, wireless clients can communicate with one another
normally by sending traffic through the access point.
• When Station Isolation is On, the access point blocks communication between wireless
clients. The access point still allows data traffic between its wireless clients and wired
devices on the network, but not among wireless clients. The traffic blocking extends to
wireless clients connected to the network via WDS links; these clients cannot
communicate with each other when Station Isolation is on. See Chapter 20: “Wireless
Distribution System” for more information about WDS.
Security Mode Select the Security Mode . Select one of the following:
• “Plain-text” on page 126.
• “Static WEP” on page 126.
• “IEEE 802.1x” on page 131.
• “WPA/WPA2 Personal (PSK)” on page 133.
• “WPA/WPA2 Enterprise (RADIUS)” on page 136.
For a Guest network, only the “Plain-text” setting can be used. (For more information, see Chapter
14: “Setting up Guest Access”.)
Security modes other than Plain-text apply only to configuration of the “Internal” network; on the
Guest network, you can use only Plain-text mode.
Table 13.5 Security Settings