Figure 80 Wireless Card: No Security; Table 54 Wireless Card: No Security - ZyXEL Communications 35 Series User Manual

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Figure 80 Wireless Card: No Security

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Wireless Card

Wireless Card This field displays whether or not a compatible ZyXEL wireless LAN card is installed.

The wireless LAN is turned off by default, before you enable the wireless LAN you

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.

You can only use the wireless LAN feature if a compatible ZyXEL wireless LAN card is

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.

(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.

Select to hide the ESSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot obtain the

ESSID through scanning.

This allows you to set the operating frequency/channel depending on your particular

region. Select a channel from the drop-down list box.

The RTS (Request To Send) threshold (number of bytes) is for enabling RTS/CTS.

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

Chapter 9 Wireless LAN

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