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AP 1
AP 2
STA 1
STA 2
STA 3
Wireless Link
Ethernet Link
Switch
WCI:
This AP Only
WCI:
This AP Only
Fig. 27. Behavior of the “This AP Only” wireless client isolation option
As illustrated in Fig. 27 when AP 1 and AP 2 are using the “This AP Only” option, wireless traffic
between STA 1 and STA 2 is blocked by AP 1, while wireless traffic between STA 2 and STA 3,
which are associated with different APs, is still allowed.
Choose from up to 7 security modes:
Open System.
No authentication, no data encryption.
Static WEP.
WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) keys must be manually configured.
Static TKIP (WPA-PSK).
Only TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) mechanism of WPA
(Wi-Fi Protected Access) is enabled. In this mode, you have to specify the
Pre-shared key
,
which will be used by the TKIP engine as a
master key
to generate keys that actually encrypt
outgoing packets and decrypt incoming packets.