ZyAIR B-2000 Wireless LAN Gateway with 4-Port Switch

Chapter 4

Wireless LAN Security Setup

This chapter describes the types of security you can enable on the ZyAIR.

4.1Levels of Security

Wireless security is vital to your network to protect wireless communication between wireless clients, access points and other wireless.

The figure below shows the possible wireless security levels on your ZyAIR. The highest security level is EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) authentication. It requires interaction with a RADIUS (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) server either on the WAN or your LAN to provide authentication service for wireless clients.

Figure 4-1 ZyAIR Wireless Security Levels

If you do not enable any wireless security on your ZyAIR, your network is accessible to any wireless networking device that is within range.

4.2Data Encryption with WEP

WEP encryption scrambles the data transmitted between the wireless clients and the access points to keep network communications private. It encrypts unicast and multicast communications in a network. Both the wireless clients and the access points must use the same WEP key for data encryption and decryption. For wireless LAN setup, refer to section on Wireless LAN Setup.

Your ZyAIR allows you to configure up to four 64-bit or 128-bit WEP keys but only one key can be enabled at any one time. Follow the steps below to configure and enable WEP encryption.

Wireless LAN Security Setup

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