SMC Networks SMCWHSG44-G manual

When the setting is set to "All APs in This Subnet", traffic among wireless users of different SMCWHSG44-Gs in the same IP subnet is blocked. The behaviors are illustrated in the following figures.

Fig. 77. Behavior of the “This AP Only” Wireless Client Isolation Option.

Fig. 78. Behavior of the “All APs on This Subnet”

Wireless Client Isolation Option.

As illustrated in Fig. 77 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 differ- ent APs, is still allowed. If the “All APs in This Subnet” option is used as shown in Fig. 78, AP 1 and AP 2 communicates with each other via an inter- AP protocol to share their STA association information to block wireless traffic among all the STAs.

There are up to 7 security modes: supported by the SMCWHSG44-G (based on WEP, WPA or Authentication Algorithm)

•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.

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