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

 

 

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 7-bit ASCII

 

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 drop-down list box.

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

 

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Chapter 9 Wireless LAN