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5.2 Levels of Security
Wireless security is vital to your network to protect wireless communication between wireless
stations, access points and the wired network.
The figure below shows the possible wireless security levels on your BIPAC-5100/5100W. The
highest security level relies on EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) for authentication and
utilizes dynamic WEP key exchange. It requires interaction with a RADIUS (Remote
Authentication Dial-In User Service) server either on the WAN or your LAN to provide
authentication service for wireless stations.
If you do not enable any wireless security on your BIPAC-5100/5100W, your network is
accessible to any wireless networking device that is within range.
Use the BIPAC-5100/5100W web configurator to configurator to set up your wireless LAN
security settings. Refer to the chapter on using the BIPAC-5100/5100W web configurator to
see how to access the web configurator.
5.3 Data Encryption with WEP
WEP encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless stations and the access
points to keep network communications private. It encrypts unicast and multicast
communications in a network. Both the wireless stations and the access points must use the
same WEP key for data encryption and decryption.
Your BIPAC-5100/5100W allows you to configure up to four 64-bit or 128-bit WEP keys but
only one key can be enabled at any one time.
5.4 Configuring Wireless LAN
Click Wireless LAN, Wireless to open the Wireless screen.
