Wireless Encryption, Access Control, 802.1x

Wireless Encryption

The ADSL Wireless Base Station supports WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy), WPA/WPA2 (Wi-Fi Protected Access), and 802.1x security mechanisms. It is highly recommended to use WPA/WPA2 security.

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.

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.

WPA/WPA2

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA/WPA2) combines temporal key integrity protocol (TKIP) and 802.1x mechanisms. It provides dynamic key encryption and 802.1x authentication service.

802.1x

If 802.1x is used in your network, then you should enable this function for the ADSL Wireless Base Station. These parameters are used for the ADSL Wireless Base Station to connect to the authentication server.

4.4.3 WPS

Wi-Fi Protected Setup (WPS) enables typical users who possess little understanding of traditional Wi-Fi configuration and security settings to easily configure new wireless networks, to add new devices and to enable security.

12	Configuring the Wireless ADSL Modem Router