8520-R1 4-Port Wireless N Gateway
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4.4.3 Wireless
– Security
This screen allows you to setup the wireless security. Turn on WEP or WPA by using encryption keys
could prevent any unauthorized access to your WLAN.
Fields in this page:
Field
Description
SSID Type
There are Root,VAP0, VAP1, VAP2, VAP3.
Encryption
There are 4 types of security to be selected. To secure your WLA
N, it’s strongly
recommended to enable this feature.
WEP:
Make sure that all wireless devices on your network are using the same
encryption level and key. Click
Set WEP Key
button to set the encryption key.
WPA (TKIP):
WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) for data encryption.
TKIP utilized a stronger encryption method and incorporates Message Integrity Code
(MIC) to provide protection against hackers.
WPA2 (AES):
WPA2, also known as 802.11i, uses Advanced Encryption Standard
(AES) for data encryption. AES utilized a symmetric 128-bit block data encryption.
WAP2 Mixed
: The AP supports WPA (TKIP) and WPA2 (AES) for data encryption.
The actual selection of the encryption methods will depend on the clients.
Use 802.1x
Authentication
Check it to enable 802.1x authentication. This option is selectable only when the
“Encryption” is choose to either
None
or
WEP.
If the “Encryption” is
WEP
, you need
to further select the WEP key length to be either
WEP 64bits
or
WEP 128bits.
WPA Authentication
Mode
There are 2 types of authentication mode for WPA.
Enterprise (RADIUS):
Enterprise RADIUS uses an external RADIUS server to
perform user authentication. To use WPA RADIUS, enter the IP address of the
RADIUS server, the RADIUS port (default is 1812) and the shared secret from the
RADIUS server. Please refer to “Authentication RADIUS Server” setting below for
RADIUS setting. The WPA algorithm is selected between TKIP and AES, please
