Chapter 8 Wireless LAN

Click Network > Wireless LAN > WDS. The following screen displays.

Figure 57 Network > Wireless LAN > WDS

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 40 Network > Wireless LAN > WDS

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable WDS

Select this option and the type of the key used to encrypt data between

Security

APs. All the wireless APs (including the ZyXEL Device) must use the

 

same pre-shared key for data transmission.

 

If you de-select this option, the data sent between APs is not encrypted.

 

Anyone can read it.

 

 

TKIP

Select this to use TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) encryption.

 

 

AES

Select this to use AES (Advanced Encryption Standard) encryption.

 

 

#

This is the index number of the individual WDS link.

 

 

Active

Select this to activate the link between the ZyXEL Device and the peer

 

device to which this entry refers. When you do not select the check box

 

this link is down.

 

 

Remote Bridge

Type the MAC address of the peer device in a valid MAC address format

MAC Address

(six hexadecimal character pairs, for example 12:34:56:78:9a:bc).

 

 

PSK

Enter a Pre-Shared Key (PSK) from 8 to 63 case-sensitive ASCII

 

characters (including spaces and symbols).

 

 

Apply

Click this to save your changes.

 

 

Cancel

Click this to restore your previously saved settings.

 

 

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