Chapter 10 Interface

The following table describes the general wireless LAN labels in this screen.

Table 67 Network > Interface > WLAN > Add (No Security)

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

General Settings

 

 

 

Enable

Select this option to turn on the wireless LAN interface.

Interface

 

 

 

Interface Name

Specify a number from 1~8 to complete the name for this wireless LAN interface.

 

 

Description

Enter a description of this interface. It is not used elsewhere. You can use

 

alphanumeric and ()+/:=?!*#@$_%- characters, and it can be up to 60

 

characters long.

Zone

Select the zone to which you want the WLAN interface to belong.

 

 

Virtual Access

 

Point Settings

 

 

 

SSID

(Service Set IDentity) The SSID identifies the Service Set with which a wireless

 

station is associated. Wireless stations associating to the access point (AP) must

 

have the same SSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit ASCII

 

characters) for the wireless LAN. To make your wireless network more secure,

 

change the default SSID to something that is difficult to guess.

 

 

Hide SSID

Select to hide the SSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot obtain

Broadcast

the SSID through scanning.

 

 

Block Intra-

Select this to prevent wireless clients in this profile’s BSS from communicating

BSS Traffic

with one another.

 

 

Maximum

Specify the highest number of wireless clients that are allowed to connect to the

Associations

wireless interface at the same time.

 

 

WLAN Security

Click Advanced to display more settings. Click Basic to display fewer settings.

Settings

 

 

 

Security Type

Use this field to select the type of security to use for this wireless LAN interface.

 

Select none to not use any security. See the following sections for details on the

 

other security types.

 

 

802.1x

Authentication server (IEEE 802.1x) settings are available when you use no

 

security or WEP security and click Advanced.

 

Select the check box to enable wireless user authentication through an external

 

authentication server.

 

 

RADIUS

Enter the IP address of the external authentication server in dotted decimal

Server IP

notation.

Address

 

RADIUS

Enter the RADIUS server’s listening port number (the default is 1812).

Server Port

 

RADIUS

Enter a password (up to 31 alphanumeric characters) as the key to be shared

Server Secret

between the external authentication server and the ZyWALL. The key is not sent

 

over the network. This key must be the same on the external authentication

 

server and ZyWALL.

 

 

IP Address

 

Assignment

 

 

 

IP Address

Enter the IP address for this interface.

 

 

Subnet Mask

Enter the subnet mask of this interface in dot decimal notation. The subnet mask

 

indicates what part of the IP address is the same for all computers in the network.

 

 

Interface

Click Advanced to display more settings. Click Basic to display fewer settings.

Parameters

 

 

 

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