AMX NXA-WAP250G manual Wireless VAP Settings WPA / WPA2 Setting, WPA, WPA2, WPA-WPA2 Mix Mode

System Configuration

Wireless VAP Settings - WPA / WPA2 Setting

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) employs a combination of technologies to provide an enhanced security solution for wireless networks. The WPA Pre-shared Key (WPA-PSK) mode for small networks uses a common password phrase that must be manually distributed to all clients that want to connect to the network.

WPA2 is a further security enhancement that includes the now ratified IEEE 802.11i wireless security standard. Both WPA and WPA2 provide very robust security through the support of the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption ciphers (FIG. 31).

FIG. 31 Wireless VAP 1 Setting - WPA-PSK Wireless Security

The computationally intensive operations of AES encryption requires hardware support on client devices. Before implementing AES in the network, be sure that wireless client hardware is AES or WPA2 compliant.

The items on this page include:

WPA/WPA2 Status: Enables WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK security on the VAP interface. When

enabled, WEP clients are not supported. (default: Disabled).

Authentication: Select an authentication method. Supported methods include:

WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, WPA2-PSK Mix Mode

If you select WPA(2)-PSK, you must provide a Key (see WPA-PSK Key below).

WPA, WPA2, WPA-WPA2 Mix Mode

If you select WPA(2), you must configure the Radius server settings for WPA / WPA2 authentication (see the Network Settings - Radius Server Setting section on

page 37).

Key Cipher Mode: Selects the encryption cipher to use for multicast and unicast data traffic:

Auto: Uses TKIP for the multicast cipher and TKIP or AES for the unicast cipher depending on the capability of associated clients.

AES: Uses AES keys for both multicast and unicast encryption.

TKIP: Uses TKIP keys for both multicast and unicast encryption.

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