System Wireless; The Fortiwifi Wireless Lan Interface - Fortinet Fortigate-5000 series Administration Manual

System Wireless

System Wireless

The FortiWiFi wireless LAN interface

FortiGate Version 3.0 MR4 Administration Guide
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This section describes how to configure the Wireless LAN interfaces on FortiWiFi
units.
The following topics are included in this section:
• The FortiWiFi wireless LAN interface
• Channel assignments
• System wireless settings (FortiWiFi-60)
• System wireless settings (FortiWiFi-60A and 60AM)
• Wireless MAC Filter
• Wireless Monitor
You can configure the FortiWiFi Wireless interface to:
• provide an access point to which users with wireless network cards can
connect (Access Point mode).
or
• connect the FortiWiFi unit to another wireless network (Client mode)
Access Point mode is the default mode. FortiWiFi-60A and FortiWiFi-60AM units
can provide multiple WLANs.
FortiWiFi units support the following wireless network standards:
• IEEE 802.11a (5-GHz Band)
• IEEE 802.11b (2.4-GHz Band)
• IEEE 802.11g (2.4-GHz Band)
• Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP)
• Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) using pre-shared key or Radius server (Access
Point mode only)
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