Wireless Client Wpa Supplicants; Wireless Security Effectiveness; Configuring Security; Table 25 Wireless Security Levels - ZyXEL Communications NWA-3500 User Manual

Chapter 7 Wireless Security Configuration

7.7 Wireless Client WPA Supplicants

A wireless client supplicant is the software that runs on an operating system instructing the
wireless client how to use WPA. At the time of writing, the most widely available supplicant is
the WPA patch for Windows XP, Funk Software's Odyssey client, and Meetinghouse Data
Communications' AEGIS client.
The Windows XP patch is a free download that adds WPA capability to Windows XP's built-in
"Zero Configuration" wireless client. However, you must run Windows XP to use it.

7.8 Wireless Security Effectiveness

The following figure shows the relative effectiveness of these wireless security methods
available on your ZyXEL Device. EAP (Extensible Authentication Protocol) is used for
authentication and utilizes static WEP key exchange. It requires interaction with a RADIUS
(Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service) server either on the WAN or your LAN to
provide authentication service for wireless stations.

Table 25 Wireless Security Levels

SECURITY
LEVEL
Least
Secure
Most Secure
If you do not enable any wireless security on your ZyXEL Device, your network is accessible
to any wireless networking device within range.

7.9 Configuring Security

The following screens are configurable only in Access Point, AP+Bridge and
MBSSID operating modes only.
Use the Security screen to create secure profiles. A security profile is a group of configuration
settings which can be assigned to an SSID profile in the SSID configuration screen.
You can configure up to 16 security profiles.
To change your ZyXEL Device's wireless security settings, click WIRELESS > Security.
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SECURITY TYPE
Unique SSID (Default)
Unique SSID with Hide SSID Enabled
MAC Address Filtering
WEP Encryption
IEEE802.1x EAP with RADIUS Server Authentication
Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA)
WPA2
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