P-2302HW/HWL-P1 Series User’s Guide

Figure 41 Wireless: Static WEP Encryption

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

Table 36 Wireless: Static WEP Encryption

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

 

 

Security Mode

Choose Static WEP from the drop-down list box.

 

 

Passphrase

Enter a Passphrase (up to 32 printable characters) and clicking Generate. The ZyXEL

 

Device automatically generates a WEP key.

WEP

Select 64-bit WEP, 128-bit WEP or 256-bit WEP to specify data encryption.

Encryption

 

Authentication

This field specifies whether the wireless clients have to provide the WEP key to login

Method

to the wireless client. Keep this setting at Auto or Open System unless you want to

 

force a key verification before communication between the wireless client and the

 

ZyXEL Device occurs. Select Shared Key to force the clients to provide the WEP key

 

prior to communication.

Key 1 - Key 4

The WEP key is used to encrypt data. Both the ZyXEL Device and the wireless

 

stations must use the same WEP key for data transmission.

 

You can set 4 different keys and make one of the keys active at a time.

 

If you want to manually set the WEP key, enter any 5, 13 or 29 characters (ASCII

 

string) or 10, 26 or 58 hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") for a 64-bit, 128-bit or

 

256-bit WEP key respectively.

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