Advantech WLAN-9100, Manual

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3-2-2 Advanced Settings for Security
This section describes the commands to control the security for WLAN-9100. To prevent
unauthorized wireless stations from accessing data transmitted over the network, the
WLAN-9100 Wireless LAN Access Point offers the following levels of security options.
- Access Control Table restricts wireless stations to access the Access Point.
- Data Encryption, known as WEP (Wired Equivalency Privacy), encrypts wireless data
transmitted via wireless medium.
Access Control
auth mode | add | del | list| clear
The 'auth' command contains sub-commands that allow you to manage the access control
(MAC address filter) of the WLAN-9100. The access control table consists of a list for
you to control the accessibility of any wireless stations or repeaters. The sub-commands
are listed below:
mode open | allow : set the access control mode. The definition of each mode is specified
as follows:
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open : open to public (default)
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restrict: only allow access of the authorized stations/repeaters in the table (no
access is allowed if the list stays empty)
add mac_addr : add an address into the access control table
del mac_addr |index : delete a MAC address, or index an address from the access control
table
list [start/end] : display the content of the access control mode and the address list. The
optional arguments, start and end, can be affixed to select the range of items
to be listed.
clear : clear all the addresses in the access control table.