AMX NXA-WAP250G Wireless VAP Settings WEP Setting, Authentication Mode Select Open or Shared

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System Configuration

The items on this page include:

Auto Channel Selection: Enables the WAP250G to automatically select an interference-free

radio channel (default: Enabled).

Radio Channel: The radio channel that the WAP250G uses to communicate with wireless clients. When multiple WAP250Gs are deployed in the same area, set the channel on neighboring WAP250Gs at least five channels apart to avoid interference with each other.

For example, you can deploy up to three WAP250Gs in the same area using channels 1, 6,

11.Note that wireless clients automatically set the channel to the same as that used by the WAP250G to which it is linked (range = 1-11; default = 11).

Wireless VAP Settings - WEP Setting

The WAP250G is configured by default as an “open system,” which broadcasts a beacon signal including the configured SSID. Wireless clients with a configured SSID of “any” can read the SSID from the beacon and automatically set their SSID to allow immediate connection to the WAP250G. To secure the wireless network, you have to implement user authentication and wireless data encryption.

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) provides a basic level of security, preventing unauthorized access to the network and encrypting data transmitted between wireless clients and the WAP250G. WEP uses static shared keys (fixed-length hexadecimal or alphanumeric strings) that are manually distributed to all clients that want to use the network (FIG. 30).

FIG. 30 Wireless VAP 1 Setting - WEP Security

The items on this page include:

WEP Status: Enables the WAP250G to use WEP shared keys. If enabled, you must configure at least one key for the VAP interface and all its clients.

Authentication Mode: Select Open or Shared.

With Authentication Mode set to Open, any bridge can authenticate and then attempt to communicate with the WAP250G. If the WAP250G is using WEP and the other bridge is not, the other bridge does not attempt to authenticate. If the other bridge is using WEP but its WEP keys do not match the keys on the WAP250G, the other bridge authenticates with the WAP250G but does not pass data through it.

With Authentication Mode set to Shared, the WAP250G sends an unencrypted challenge string to any bridge attempting to communicate with the WAP250G. The bridge

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