Chapter 7 Wireless Security Configuration
7.7 Wireless Client WPA Supplicants
A wireless client supplicant is the software that runs on an operating system instructing the wireless client how to use WPA. At the time of writing, the most widely available supplicant is the WPA patch for Windows XP, Funk Software's Odyssey client, and Meetinghouse Data Communications' AEGIS client.
The Windows XP patch is a free download that adds WPA capability to Windows XP's
7.8 Wireless Security Effectiveness
The following figure shows the relative effectiveness of these wireless security methods available on your ZyXEL Device. EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) is used for authentication and utilizes static WEP key exchange. It requires interaction with a RADIUS (Remote Authentication
Table 26 Wireless Security Levels
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If you do not enable any wireless security on your ZyXEL Device, your network is accessible to any wireless networking device within range.
7.9Configuring Security
"The following screens are configurable only in Access Point, AP+Bridge and MBSSID operating modes only.
Use the Security screen to create secure profiles. A security profile is a group of configuration settings which can be assigned to an SSID profile in the SSID configuration screen.
You can configure up to 16 security profiles.
To change your ZyXEL Device’s wireless security settings, click WIRELESS > Security.
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