Wireless security, Wireless Encryption

Wireless security

Wireless Encryption

To make your wireless network safe, you should turn on the security function. The ADSL Wireless Base Station supports WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), WPA (Wi-Fi Protected), and 802.1x security mechanisms.

Access Control

Access Control allows users to define the outgoing traffic permitted or not-permitted through the WAN interface. The default is to permit all outgoing traffic.

To add the PC to the filtering table:

1Click ‘Add PC’ on the Access Control screen.

2Define the appropriate settings for client PC services.

3Click ‘OK’ and then click ‘SAVE SETTINGS’ to save your settings.

MAC Filter

The ADSL Wireless Base Station can also limit the network access based on the MAC address. The MAC Filtering Table allows the ADSL Wireless Base Station to enter up to 32 MAC addresses that are not allowed access to the WAN port.

1Click Yes to enable, or No to disable this function.

2Enter the MAC address in the space provided and click ‘Save Settings’ to confirm.

Note: Also see ‘Finding the MAC address of a network card’ on page 32.

WEP

If you use WEP to protect your wireless network, you need to set the same parameters for the ADSL Wireless Base Station and all your wireless clients.

You may automatically generate encryption keys or manually enter the keys. To generate the key automatically with passphrase, check the Passphrase box, enter a string of characters. Select the default key from the drop down menu. Click ‘SAVE SETTINGS’.

Note: The passphrase can consist of up to 32 alphanumeric characters.

To manually configure the encryption key, enter five hexadecimal pairs of digits for each 64-bit key, or enter 13 pairs for the single 128-bit key.

(A hexadecimal digit is a number or letter in the range 0-9 or A-F.)

Note that WEP protects data transmitted between wireless nodes, but does not protect any transmissions over your wired network or over the Internet.