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Security for Wireless LANs

For a LAN with one or more wireless clients, enable wireless security. Because wireless data is transmitted using radio signals, unauthorized people can eavesdrop unless you enable wireless security. The SVG2500 supports several wireless security measures. The ones that make sense for you depend on your needs and networking equipment.

To prevent unauthorized eavesdropping, you must encrypt wireless data transmissions using one of:

•If all of your wireless clients support Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA), Motorola recommends configuring WPA on your SVG2500 and wireless clients. You can use the same WPA Passphrase on the SVG2500 and any wireless adapter that supports WPA.

•Otherwise, configure a Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP) key on the SVG2500 and each wireless client. You can use the same WEP key on the SVG2500 and any 802.11b/g wireless adapter.

To further protect from unauthorized intrusions, you can:

•Configure a MAC access control list to restrict wireless local-area network (WLAN) access to known MAC addresses.