Chapter 10: Configuring Security
None (Plain-text)
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Note: You can also allow or prohibit the Broadcast SSID and enable/disable
Station Isolation as extra precautions as mentioned below.)
10.2.2 None (Plain-text)None (or plain-text security) means any data transferred to and from the 9160 G2
Wireless Gateway is not encrypted.
Field Description
Broadcast SSID
To enable the Broadcast SSID, select the checkbox directly beside it. By default, the access point
broadcasts (allows) the Service Set Identifier (
SSID
) in its beacon frames.
You can suppress (prohibit) this broadcast to discourage stations from automatically discovering your
access point. When the AP’s broadcast SSID is suppressed, the network name will no t be d isplaye d
in the List of Available Networks on a client station. Instead, the client must have the exa ct ne tw ork
name configured in the supplican t before it will be able to conn ect.
Station Isolation
To enable station isolation, select the checkbox directly beside it.
• When Station Isolation is disabled, wireless clients can communicate with one another
normally by sending traffic through the access point.
• When Station Isolation is enabled, the access point blocks communication between
wireless clients. The access point still allows data traffic between its wirele ss clients and
wired devices on the network, but not among wireless clients. The tr affic blocking extends
to wireless clients connected to the network via WDS links; these clients cannot
communicate with each other when Station Isolation is on. See Chapter 20: “Wirele ss
Distribution System” for more information about WDS.
Security Mode
Select the
Security Mode
. Select one of the following:
• “None (Plain-text)” on page 100.
• “Static WEP” on page102.
• “IEEE 802.1x” on page107.
• “WPA Personal” on page109.
• “WPA Enterprise” on page112.
For a Guest network, the only security mode that can be applied is “None (Plain-text)”. (For more
information, see Chapter 14: “Setting up Guest Access”.)
Security modes other than “None (Plain-text)” apply only to configuration of the “Internal” network.