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MM2211 Wireless Broadband Gateway User’s Guide
8000013, December 2006
Configuring the Wireless Interface
3.
Enter a word or group of printable characters in the Passphrase box and click
Generate
. The passphrase is
case sensitive; e.g.
MediaFlex
is not the same as
MEDIAFLEX
. The four key boxes will be automatically
populated with key values.
4.
Click
Update
to save your settings.
5.
Click
Update
.
Configuring the WAN SSID With WPA-PSK Security
WPA PSK configuration menu allows automatic key generation based on a single passphrase. WPA PSK
provides very strong security. If you configure the MM2211 Gateway with WPA-PSK, you can only
communicate with another AP that is setup with the same WPA-PSK passphrase.
1.
Select
WPA-PSK
in the
Security
drop-down menu.
2.
Click the
Edit Security Settings
button.The WPA Configuration appears (
Figure 15
).
Figure 15—WPA Configuration
3.
In the
Configuration ->Security (WPA-PSK)
menu, enter a passphrase and enter it again in the
Confirm
field.
Restore
Restores your previous configuration.
Default Shared
Key/Encryption Key
You can create an encryption key in either of two ways. If you enter a word or group of
printable characters in the Passphrase box and click Generate, the four encryption
keys will be populated. Or you can edit any of the encryption keys to match a
pre-existing key.
Table 9—WEP Configuration (Continued)
Field
Description