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AP 1
AP 2
STA 1
STA 2
STA 3
Wireless Link
Ethernet Link
Switch
WCI:
This AP Only
WCI:
This AP Only
Fig. 39. Behavior of the “This AP Only” wireless client isolation option
AP 1
AP 2
STA 1
STA 2
STA 3
Wireless Link
Ethernet Link
Switch
WCI:
All APs in This
Subnet
WCI:
All APs in This
Subnet
Fig. 40. Behavior of the “All APs on This Subnet” wireless client isolation option
As illustrated in Fig. 39 when AP 1 and AP 2 are using the “This AP Only” option, wireless traffic
between STA 1 and STA 2 is blocked by AP 1, while wireless traffic between STA 2 and STA 3,
which are associated with different APs, is still allowed. If the “All APs in This Subnet” option is
used as shown in Fig. 40, AP 1 and AP 2 communicates with each other via an inter-AP protocol to
share their STA association information to block wireless traffic among all the STAs.
Choose from up to 7 security modes:
z
Open System.
No authentication, no data encryption.
z
Static WEP.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) keys must be manually configured.
z
Static TKIP (WPA-PSK).
Only TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) mechanism of WPA
(Wi-Fi Protected Access) is enabled. In this mode, you have to specify the
Pre-shared key
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