ZyXEL Communications Prestige 660W Series User Manual page 331

FIELD
Idle Timeout The Prestige automatically disconnects a client from the wired network after a period of
(in second) inactivity. The client needs to enter the username and password again before access to
the wired network is allowed.
This field is activated only when you select Authentication Required in the Wireless
Port Control field. The default time interval is 3600 seconds (or 1 hour).
Key Press [SPACE BAR] to select 802.1x, WPA or WPA-PSK and press [ENTER].
Management
Protocol
Dynamic WEP This field is activated only when you select Authentication Required in the Wireless
Key Exchange Port Control field. Also set the Authentication Databases field to RADIUS Only. Local
user database may not be used.
Select Disable to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access points without
using Dynamic WEP Key Exchange.
Select 64-bit WEP or 128-bit WEP to enable data encryption.
Up to 32 stations can access the Prestige when you configure Dynamic WEP Key
Exchange. This field is not available when you set Key Management Protocol to WPA
or WPA-PSK.
PSK Type a pre-shared key from 8 to 63 case-sensitive ASCII characters (including spaces
and symbols) when you select WPA-PSK in the Key Management Protocol field.
WPA Mixed Select Enable to activate WPA mixed mode. Otherwise, select Disable and configure
Group Data Privacy field.
Mode
Data Privacy This field allows you to choose TKIP (recommended) or WEP for broadcast and multicast
for Broadcast/ ("group") traffic if the Key Management Protocol is WPA and WPA Mixed Mode is
Multicast disabled. WEP is used automatically if you have enabled WPA Mixed Mode.
packets
All unicast traffic is automatically encrypted by TKIP when WPA or WPA-PSK Key
Management Protocol is selected.
WPA The WPA Broadcast/Multicast Key Update Timer is the rate at which the AP (if using
Broadcast/ WPA-PSK key management) or RADIUS server (if using WPA key management) sends
Multicast Key a new group key out to all clients. The re-keying process is the WPA equivalent of
Update Timer automatically changing the WEP key for an AP and all stations in a WLAN on a periodic
basis. Setting of the WPA Broadcast/Multicast Key Update Timer is also supported in
WPA-PSK mode. The Prestige default is 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
System Security
Table 34-2 Menu 23.4 System Security : IEEE802.1x
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