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Chapter 18 Wireless LAN
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Device PIN This shows the ZyXEL Device’s PIN (Personal Identification Number).
Enter this PIN in the external registrar within two minutes of clicking
Config AP.
WSC Add
External
Registrar
This is available when you set the WPS AP Mode to Configured.
Click Start AddER to have an external registrar such as an Intel
wireless station use WPS to add wireless clients and then authenticate
them whenever they connect to the wireless network.
If you used a Windows Vista computer to configure the ZyXEL Device’s
wireless settings, you can also use the Windows Vista computer to add
and authenticate wireless clients without using WSC Add External
Registrar. See Section 18.10.5 on page 170 for details.
Note: After you click Start AddER you must enter the ZyXEL
Device’s PIN in the external registrar within two minutes.
Then click Finish AddER.
Manual Setup AP Use these fields to manually configure security settings for wireless
clients that do not support WPS.The fields that display vary based on
the type of network authentication you select.
Select SSID Select the wireless network for which you want to configure security
settings.
Network
Authentication
Select the type of wireless network security to use for this network.
Open - allows wireless devices to communicate with the access points
without any authentication.
Shared - encrypts the wireless communications using a shared (WEP)
password.
802.1X - encrypts the wireless communications using a shared (WEP)
password and use an external RADIUS authentication server to
authenticate each wireless client.
With WPA or WPA2 each user can have a separate user name and
password. The ZyXEL Device uses an external RADIUS server to
authenticate wireless client’s user name and password.
With WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK the wireless clients share a common
password instead of the ZyXEL Device using a RADIUS server.
Mixed WPA2/WPA supports WPA and WPA2 on the network
simultaneously.
Mixed WPA2/WPA-PSK supports WPA and WPA2 on the network
simultaneously.
WPA Pre-Shared
Key
This field is available only with WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK network
authentication.
Type a pre-shared key from 8 to 63 case-sensitive ASCII characters
(including spaces and symbols) or 64 hexadecimal digits.
Click the link to see the key in plain text.
Table 54 Wireless > Security
LABEL DESCRIPTION