Freeway DSL User’s Manual
4.3.3 Security
This page allows advanced users who have sufficient knowledge of wireless LAN to configure
advanced settings for the wireless connection. The default settings shall not be changed
unless you know exactly what will happen for the changes you made to your Freeway DSL.
This screen allows you to setup the wireless security. Enable WEP or WPA by configuring
encryption keys can prevent unauthorized access to your WLAN.
Field Description
SSID Type
A VAP (Virtual Access Point) is a logical entity which exits within a
physical Access Point (AP). A physical AP can support several VAPs.
Each VAP might advertise either different SSID and capability set or
same SSID with different capability set. In general terms, VAPs can be
seen as totally independent APs. That is, with different capabilities,
SSID, MAC addresses, IP addresses, client configurations and
connected to different VLANs.
Encryption
There are 4 types of security to be selected. To secure your wireless
network, it’s strongly recommended to enable this feature.
WEP:
Make sure that all wireless devices on your network are using
the same encryption level and key. Click
Set WEP Key
button to set
the encryption key.
WPA (TKIP):
WPA uses Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) for
data encryption. TKIP utilized a stronger encryption method and
incorporates Message Integrity Code (MIC) to provide protection
against hackers.
WPA2 (AES):
WPA2 uses Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) for
data encryption. AES utilized a symmetric 128bit block data
encryption.
WAP2 Mixed
: The AP supports WPA (TKIP) and WPA2 (AES) for
data encryption.
Use 802.1x
Authentication
Check it to enable 802.1x authentication. This option is selectable only
when the Encryption is choose to either
None
or
WEP
. If the Encryption
is
WEP
, you need to further select the WEP key length to be either
WEP
64bits
or
WEP 128bits
.
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