Wireless Security – WPA / WPA2-Mixed
Select WPA or WPA2-Mixedfrom the drop-down list if your wireless network uses WPA encryption. WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) was designed to improve upon the security features of WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy). The technology is designed to work with existing Wi-Fi products that have been enabled with WEP. WPA provides improved data encryption through the Temporal Integrity Protocol (TKIP), which scrambles the keys using a hashing algorithm and by adding an integrity checking feature which makes sure that keys haven’t been tampered with.
Encryption: Select WPA or WPA2-Mixedfrom the drop-down list in order to enable WPA security.
WPA Authentication Mode: Select Enterprise (Radius) or Personal (Pre-Shared Key). If you select Enterprise (radius) then the pass key is located on the RADIUS server, however, if you select Personal (Pre-Shared Key) then you may assign a key on this configuration page.
WPA / WPA2 Cipher Suite: Select TKIP or AES as the cipher suite. The encryption algorithm used to secure the data communication. TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) provides per-packet key generation and is based on WEP. AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) is a very secure block based encryption. Note that, if the bridge uses the AES option, the bridge can associate with the access point only if the access point is also set to use only AES. The device negotiates the cipher type with the access point, and uses AES when available.
Pre-Shared Key: The key is entered as a pass-phrase of up to 63 alphanumeric characters in ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange) format at both ends of the wireless connection. It cannot be shorter than eight characters, although for proper security it needs to be of ample length and should not be a commonly known phrase. This phrase is used to generate session keys that are unique for each wireless client.
Authentication Radius Sever: If you have selected Enterprise (Radius) as the authentication type then you must specify the RADIUS port number, IP address, and password.
