Chapter 10 Wireless LAN
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See the rest of this chapter for information on the other labels in this screen.
10.3 Wire le ss Se c urity
The screen varies depending on what you select in the
Se c urity Mo de
field.
10.3.1 No Se c urity
Select
No Se c urity
to allow wireless clients to communicate with the access points without any data
encryption.
Note: If you do not enable any wireless security on your NBG6604, your network is accessible
to any wireless networking device that is within range.
Security Mode
Select
WPA 2- PSK
to add security on this wireless network. The wireless clients which want to
associate to this network must have same wireless security settings as this device. After you
select to use a security, additional options appears in this screen. See
Section 10.3 on page 70
for detailed information on different security modes. Or you can select
No Se c urity
to allow
any client to associate this network without authentication.
Note: If the WPS function is enabled (default), only
No Se c urity
and
WPA2- PSK
are
available in this field.
WPA-PSK
Compatible
This field appears when you choose
WPA 2- PSK
as the
Se c urity Mo de
.
Select this to allow wireless devices using
WPA- PSK
security mode to connect to your
NBG6604.
PMF
Protected Management Frames (PMF) is a protection mechanism of action management
frames.
Select this to allow wireless devices using the PMF protection mechanism to connect to your
NBG6604.
Pre-Shared Key
WPA- PSK/ WPA2- PSK
uses a simple common password for authentication.
Type a pre-shared key from 8 to 63 case-sensitive keyboard characters.
Group Key Update
Timer
The
G ro up Ke y Up d a te Tim e r
is the rate at which the AP sends a new group key out to all
clients.
The default is
3600
seconds (60 minutes).
Apply
Click
A pp ly
to save your changes back to the NBG6604.
Cancel
Click
C a nc e l
to reload the previous configuration for this screen.
Table 21 Wireless (continued)
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