Air Live WLA-500AP, User Manual

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automatically assign IP addresses to PCs (requesting DHCP client devices) on your LAN - you don’t
have to apply for and assign IP addresses to PCs on your network.
A C C E S S I N G S E R V E R S F R O M T H E P U B L I C N E T W O R K
If you want special servers to be accessible to remote users across the Internet (e.g., an e-mail server, an
FTP server, or a web server), you can configure the WLA-5000AP to
proxy the service using its (public)
IP address. It means a remote user can access the server by using the WLA-5000AP’s IP address.
Upon receiving a request, the WLA-5000AP will re-direct the request to the actual server on your local
network.
A Security Overview
More and more people are concerned about protecting your local network from the Internet. The
WLA-5000AP provides several ways to keep your network secure:
¾ Devices on your wired or wireless network are assigned private IP addresses; therefore remote
users from the Internet cannot see nor access them.
¾ The WLA-5000AP implements IP packet filtering with SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) capabili-
ties, which you can use to selectively filter (discard) packets to/from the Internet.
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You can selectively restrict management from remote devices.
To address the growing security concern in a wireless LAN environment, different levels of security
can also be enabled in the WLA-5000AP, including:
¾ To disable SSID broadcast so to restrict association to only client stations that are already pre-
configured with correct SSIDs
¾ To enable WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol) encryption to implement privacy of your data
¾ To enable WPA (WiFi Protected Access) to assure authorized access as well as to implement pri-
vacy of your data. WPA comes with PSK (Pre-Shared Key) for SOHO users.
WLA-5000AP Features
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High performance 11 Mbps (802.11b) or 54Mbps (802.11a/g) data rate
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Wi-Fi, WPA certificated interoperability
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Web-based, SNMP v1/v2, Telnet management
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WPA with Pre-Shared Key Support
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WPA with TKIP Support
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WPA with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) support
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152-bit WEP support (Atheros Proprietary)
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S/W (station/receiver based) DMZ support
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VPN pass through support
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Advanced NAT/Firewall features
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Special applications support including MSN Messenger6.0, Netmeeting… etc
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802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol support
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RoHS complied
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