AirWorks AWK-1100 User’s Manual
Web Console Configuration
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A total of 7 security modes are available with the different AWK-1100 models:
y
Open System.
No authentication, no data encryption.
y
Static WEP.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) keys must be manually configured.
y
Static TKIP (WPA-PSK).
Only TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) mechanism of WPA
(Wi-Fi Protected Access) is enabled. In this mode, you need to specify the
Pre-shared key
,
which will be used by the TKIP engine as a
master key
to generate keys that actually encrypt
outgoing packets and decrypt incoming packets.
NOTE
The number of characters of the
Pre-shared key
setting must be at least 8 and can be up to 63.
y
IEEE 802.1X EAP without Encryption (EAP-MD5).
The IEEE 802.1X functionality is
enabled and the user-name/password-based EAP-MD5 authentication is used. No data
encryption.
y
IEEE 802.1X EAP with Static WEP (EAP-MD5).
The IEEE 802.1X functionality is enabled
and the user-name/password-based EAP-MD5 authentication is used. Data encryption is
achieved by static WEP.
y
IEEE 802.1X EAP with Dynamic WEP (EAP-TLS, EAP-TTLS, PEAP).
The IEEE 802.1X
functionality is enabled and dynamic WEP key distribution authentication (EAP-TLS,
EAP-TTLS, or PEAP) is used. Data encryption is achieved by dynamic WEP.
y
IEEE 802.1X EAP with Dynamic TKIP (WPA).
This is a full WPA mode, in which both the
TKIP and IEEE 802.1X dynamic key exchange mechanisms are enabled. The AP is highly
secure in this mode.
In the above security modes, a back-end RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service)
server is needed if IEEE 802.1X functionality is enabled. See Section 0 for more information
about IEEE 802.1X and RADIUS.
According to the IEEE 802.11 standard, WEP can be used for authentication and data encryption.
Normally,
Shared Key
authentication is used if WEP data encryption is enabled. In rare cases,
Open System
authentication may be used when WEP data encryption is enabled. The
Authentication algorithm
setting is provided for better compatibility with wireless clients with
various WLAN network adapters. There are three options available, including
Open System
,
Shared Key
, and
Auto
.
When WEP is enabled by a security mode, the
Key length
can be specified to be
64 Bits
or
128
Bits
. The
Selected key
setting specifies the key to be used as a
send-key
for encrypting traffic
from the AP side to the wireless client side. All 4 WEP keys are used as
receive-keys
to decrypt
traffic from the wireless client side to the AP side.
NOTE
Each field of a WEP key setting is a
hex-decimal
number from 00 to FF. For example, when the
security mode is
Static WEP
and the key length is
64 Bits
, you could set Key 1 to
“00012E3ADF”.
