ZyAIR B-500 Wireless Access Point User’s Guide

Chapter 1

Getting to Know Your ZyAIR

This chapter introduces the main features and applications of the ZyAIR.

1.1Introducing the ZyAIR Wireless Access Point

The ZyAIR extends the range of your existing wired network without any additional wiring efforts. The ZyAIR provides easy network access to mobile users. The ZyAIR offers highly secured wireless connectivity to your wired network with IEEE 802.1x, Wi-Fi Protected Access, WEP data encryption and MAC address filtering.

The ZyAIR is easy to install and configure. The embedded web-based configurator and SNMP network management enables remote configuration and management of your ZyAIR.

1.2ZyAIR Features

The following sections describe the features of the ZyAIR.

10/100M Auto-negotiating Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Interface

This auto-negotiating feature allows the ZyAIR to detect the speed of incoming transmissions and adjust appropriately without manual intervention. It allows data transfer of either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps in either half-duplex or full-duplex mode depending on your Ethernet network.

10/100M Auto-crossover Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Interface

The LAN interface automatically adjusts to either a crossover or straight-through Ethernet cable.

Reset Button

The ZyAIR reset button is built into the top panel. Use this button to restore the factory default password to 1234; IP address to 192.168.1.2, subnet mask to 255.255.255.0.

Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection

The ZyAIR has a special protection mechanism to discourage brute-force password guessing attacks on the ZyAIR's management interfaces. You can specify a wait-time that must expire before entering a fourth password after three incorrect passwords have been entered. Please see the appendix for details about this feature.

Getting to Know Your ZyAIR

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