Appendix A Wireless LANs

1First enter identical passwords into the AP and all wireless clients. The Pre-Shared Key (PSK) must consist of between 8 and 63 ASCII characters or 64 hexadecimal characters (including spaces and symbols).

2The AP checks each wireless client's password and (only) allows it to join the network if the password matches.

3The AP and wireless clients use the pre-shared key to generate a common PMK (Pairwise Master Key).

Figure 187 The AP and wireless clients use the TKIP or AES encryption process to encrypt data WPA(2)-PSK Authentication

4Security Parameters Summary

Refer to this table to see what other security parameters you should configure for each Authentication Method/ key management protocol type. MAC address filters are not dependent on how you configure these security features.

Table 92 Wireless Security Relational Matrix

AUTHENTICATION

ENCRYPTIO

ENTER

 

METHOD/ KEY

IEEE 802.1X

MANAGEMENT

N METHOD

MANUAL KEY

PROTOCOL

 

 

 

Open

None

No

Disable

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Enable without Dynamic WEP

 

 

 

Key

 

 

 

 

Open

WEP

No

Enable with Dynamic WEP Key

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes

Enable without Dynamic WEP

 

 

 

Key

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes

Disable

 

 

 

 

Shared

WEP

No

Enable with Dynamic WEP Key

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes

Enable without Dynamic WEP

 

 

 

Key

 

 

 

 

 

 

Yes

Disable

 

 

 

 

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