Chapter 8 AP Profile
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8.5 MAC Filter List
This screen allows you to create and manage security configurations that can be used by your
SSIDs. To access this screen click
Configuration > Object > AP Profile > SSID > MAC Filter
List
.
Note: You can have a maximum of 32 MAC filtering profiles on the NWA/WAC.
PSK
This field is available when you select the
wpa2
, or
wpa2-mix
security mode.
Select this option to use a Pre-Shared Key with WPA2 encryption.
Pre-Shared Key
Enter a pre-shared key of between 8 and 63 case-sensitive ASCII characters (including
spaces and symbols) or 64 hexadecimal characters.
Cipher Type
Select an encryption cipher type from the list.
•
auto
- This automatically chooses the best available cipher based on the cipher in
use by the wireless client that is attempting to make a connection.
•
tkip
- This is the Temporal Key Integrity Protocol encryption method added later to
the WEP encryption protocol to further secure. Not all wireless clients may support
this.
•
aes
- This is the Advanced Encryption Standard encryption method. It is a more
recent development over TKIP and considerably more robust. Not all wireless clients
may support this.
Idle Timeout
Enter the interval (in seconds) that a client can be idle before authentication is
discontinued.
Group Key Update
Timer
Enter the interval (in seconds) at which the AP updates the group WPA2 encryption key.
Management Frame
Protection
This field is available only when you select
wpa2
or
wpa2-mix
in the
Security Mode
field and set
Cipher Type
to
aes
.
Data frames in 802.11 WLANs can be encrypted and authenticated with WEP, WPA or
WPA2. But 802.11 management frames, such as beacon/probe response, association
request, association response, de-authentication and disassociation are always
unauthenticated and unencrypted. IEEE 802.11w Protected Management Frames allows
APs to use the existing security mechanisms (encryption and authentication methods
defined in IEEE 802.11i WPA/WPA2) to protect management frames. This helps prevent
wireless DoS attacks.
Select the check box to enable management frame protection (MFP) to add security to
802.11 management frames.
Select
Optional
if you do not require the wireless clients to support MFP. Management
frames will be encrypted if the clients support MFP.
Select
Required
and wireless clients must support MFP in order to join the NWA/WAC’s
wireless network.
OK
Click
OK
to
save your changes back to the NWA/WAC.
Cancel
Click
Cancel
to exit this screen without saving your changes.
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SSID > Security Profile > Add/Edit Security Profile (continued)
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