ZyXEL Communications Prestige 2602HW Series, User Manual

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Prestige 2602HW Series User’s Guide
246 Chapter 24 Wireless LAN Setup
24.2.1 Wireless LAN MAC Address Filter
The next layer of security is MAC address filter. To allow a wireless station to associate with
the Prestige, enter the MAC address of the wireless LAN adapter on that wireless station in the
MAC address table.
Channel ID Press [SPACE BAR] to select a channel. This allows you to set the operating frequency/
channel depending on your particular region.
RTS
Threshold
RTS (Request To Send) threshold (number of bytes) enables RTS/CTS handshake.
Data with its frame size larger than this value will perform the RTS/CTS handshake.
Setting this attribute to be larger than the maximum MSDU (MAC Service Data Unit) size
turns off the RTS/CTS handshake. Setting this attribute to zero turns on the RTS/CTS
handshake. Enter a value between 0 and 2432.
Frag.
Threshold
The threshold (number of bytes) for the fragmentation boundary for directed messages.
It is the maximum data fragment size that can be sent. Enter a value between 256 and
2432.
WEP WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) provides data encryption to prevent wireless stations
from accessing data transmitted over the wireless network.
Select
Disable allows wireless stations to communicate with the access points without
any data encryption.
Select
64-bit WEP , 128-bit WEP or 256-bit WEP to for the type of data encryption. WEP
causes performance degradation.
Default Key Enter the number of the key as an active key.
Key 1 to Key
4
If you chose 64-bit WEP in the WEP Encryption field, then enter 5 characters or 10
hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") preceded by 0x for each key (1-4).
If you chose 128-bit WEP in the WEP Encryption field, then enter 13 characters or 26
hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") preceded by 0x for each key (1-4).
If you chose
256-bit WEP in the WEP Encryption field, then enter 29 characters or 58
hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") preceded by 0x for each key (1-4).
There are four data encryption keys to secure your data from eavesdropping by
unauthorized wireless users. The values for the keys must be set up exactly the same on
the access points as they are on the wireless stations.
Edit MAC
Address
Filter
To edit MAC address filtering table, press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and press
[ENTER] to open menu 3.5.1.
When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “
Press ENTER to Confirm
or ESC to Cancel:
” to save your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.
Table 79 Menu 3.5 - Wireless LAN Setup (continued)
FIELD DESCRIPTION