4IPNET HSG326, User Manual

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User’s Manual
HSG326 Wireless Hotspot Gateway ENGLISH
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Chapter 6. Basic Service Zone Configuration
6.1 The Concept of Service Zone
Service Zones are virtual partitions of the physical LAN side of a 4ipnet Controller.
Similar to VLANs, they can be separately managed and defined, having their own
user landing pages, network interface settings, DHCP servers, authentication
options, policies and security settings, and so on. By associating a unique VLAN Tag
(when it is tag-based) and an SSID with its Service Zone, administrator can flexibly
separate the wired and wireless networks easily.
6.2 Service Zone Setup
6.2.1. Tag-based or Port-based Service Zones
4ipnet HSG Wireless Hotspot Gateways offer two modes of physical LAN port to
service zone mappings, namely port-based mode and tag-based mode. Intuitively
as the name suggests, Port-based mode means that each LAN port services one or
none Service Zones, so the maximum number of service zones is equivalent to the
number of LAN ports on a 4ipnet HSG Wireless Hotspot Gateway.
On the contrary, Tag-based service zones are not limited by the number of ports,
for they are specified by the VLAN tag ID pre-defined by the admin, regardless of