Wireless Multi-Client Bridge / Access Point / Repeater
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Cloning Mode
: select
WLAN Card
to set the MAC address of the bridge (as
seen by the Access Point and other wireless devices) to the MAC address of
the WLAN card inside the bridge. Select
Ethernet Client
to set the MAC
address to be that of the first Ethernet client that transmits data from behind
the Bridge.
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Fragmentation threshold
: transmitted wireless packets larger than this size
will be fragmented to maintain performance in noisy wireless networks.
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RTS threshold
: transmitted wireless packets larger than this size will use the
RTS/CTS protocol to (a) maintain performance in noisy wireless networks
and (b) prevent hidden nodes from degrading performance.
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Maximum burst time
: the amount of time the radio will be reserved to send
data without requiring an ACK. Adding a burst time should help throughput
for 802.11g clients when the Bridge is running in mixed mode. This number is
in units of microseconds. A typical value would be 1000 microseconds. When
the value if 0, bursting is disabled.
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Click on the
Save
button to confirm the changes.
5.4.3 WPA
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Click on the
WPA
link under the
Wireless
menu on the navigation bar. On
this page you may configure WPA, an acronym for Wi-Fi Protected Access,
which is a security protocol from the Wi-Fi alliance for 802.11 wireless
networks. It uses the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) to provide
stronger encryption than the earlier WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) method.
Derived from, and a subset of, the IEEE 802.11i security standard, WPA
includes 802.1x authentication. The image below depicts the configuration
screen of the
WPA
option.
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WPA Mode:
select
Disable
or
Enable
for WPA.
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PSK:
leave this blank if the stations will be supplied a key by the 802.1x
authentication server. If not, enter a pass-phrase between 8 and 63
characters.
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WPA Multicast Cipher Type:
currently TKIP is the only permitted setting.
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WPA Pairwise Cipher Type:
currently TKIP is the only permitted setting.
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Click on the
Save
button to confirm the changes.
