ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide
Figure 80 Wireless Card: No Security
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 54 Wireless Card: No Security
LABEL | DESCRIPTION |
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Enable | The wireless LAN is turned off by default, before you enable the wireless LAN you |
Wireless Card | should configure some security by setting MAC filters and/or 802.1x security; |
| otherwise your wireless LAN will be vulnerable upon enabling it. Select the check box |
| to enable the wireless LAN. |
Wireless Card | This field displays whether or not a compatible ZyXEL wireless LAN card is installed. |
| You can only use the wireless LAN feature if a compatible ZyXEL wireless LAN card is |
| installed. |
| Note: Turn the ZyWALL off before you install or remove the wireless |
| LAN card. See the product specifications appendix for a table of |
| compatible ZyXEL WLAN cards (and the WLAN security |
| features each card supports) and how to install a WLAN card. |
ESSID | (Extended Service Set IDentity) The ESSID identifies the Service Set with which a |
| wireless station is associated. Wireless stations associating to the access point (AP) |
| must have the same ESSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable |
| characters) for the wireless LAN. |
Hide ESSID | Select to hide the ESSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot obtain the |
| ESSID through scanning. |
Channel ID | This allows you to set the operating frequency/channel depending on your particular |
| region. Select a channel from the |
RTS/CTS | The RTS (Request To Send) threshold (number of bytes) is for enabling RTS/CTS. |
Threshold | Data with its frame size larger than this value will perform the RTS/CTS handshake. |
| Setting this value to be larger than the maximum MSDU (MAC service data unit) size |
| turns off RTS/CTS. Setting this value to zero turns on RTS/CTS. |
| Select the check box to change the default value and enter a new value between 0 and |
| 2432. |
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