Ssl Passthrough; Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection; Wireless Lan Mac Address Filtering; Wep Encryption - ZyXEL Communications ZyAIR G-3000 User Manual

1.2.2.9 SSL Passthrough

SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) uses a public key to encrypt data that's transmitted over an SSL
connection. Both Netscape Navigator and Internet Explorer support SSL, and many Web sites
use the protocol to obtain confidential user information, such as credit card numbers. By
convention, URLs that require an SSL connection start with "https" instead of "http". The
ZyAIR allows SSL connections to take place through the ZyAIR.

1.2.2.10 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.

1.2.2.11 Wireless LAN MAC Address Filtering

Your ZyAIR checks the MAC address of the wireless station against a list of allowed or
denied MAC addresses.

1.2.2.12 WEP Encryption

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) encrypts data frames before transmitting over the wireless
network to help keep network communications private.

1.2.2.13 IEEE 802.1x Network Security

The ZyAIR supports the IEEE 802.1x standard to enhance user authentication. Use the built-in
user profile database to authenticate up to 32 users using MD5 encryption. Use an EAP-
compatible RADIUS (RFC2138, 2139 - Remote Authentication Dial In User Service) server
to authenticate a limitless number of users using EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol).
EAP is an authentication protocol that supports multiple types of authentication.

1.2.2.14 SNMP

SNMP (Simple Network Management Protocol) is a protocol used for exchanging
management information between network devices. SNMP is a member of the TCP/IP
protocol suite. Your ZyAIR supports SNMP agent functionality, which allows a manger
station to manage and monitor the ZyAIR through the network. The ZyAIR supports SNMP
version one (SNMPv1) and version two c (SNMPv2c).

1.2.2.15 Full Network Management

The embedded web configurator is an all-platform web-based utility that allows you to easily
access the ZyAIR's management settings. Most functions of the ZyAIR are also software
configurable via the SMT (System Management Terminal) interface. The SMT is a menu-
driven interface that you can access from a terminal emulator over a telnet connection.
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