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10 Wireless LAN
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You can control which clients can access your wireless LAN via your device by creating an
Access Control List (Access Control oder MAC-Filter). In the Access Control List, you
enter the MAC addresses of the clients that may access your wireless LAN. All other clients
have no access.
Security measures
To protect the data transferred over the WLAN, the following configuration steps should be
carried out in the Wireless LAN->WLAN->Wireless Networks (VSS)->New menu, where
necessary:
• Change the access passwords for your device.
• Change the default SSID, Network Name (SSID) =
Visible = . This will exclude all WLAN clients that attempt to establish a connec-
tion with the general value for Network Name (SSID)
tings.
• Use the available encryption methods. To do this, select Security Mode =
, or
der WEP Key 1 - 4 or Preshared Key and in the WLAN clients.
• The WEP key should be changed regularly. To do this, change the Transmit Key . Select
the longer 104 Bit WEP key.
• For transmission of information with very high security relevance, configure Security
Mode =
based encryption and RADIUS authentication of the client. In special cases, combination
with IPSec is possible.
• Restrict WLAN access to permitted clients. Enter the MAC addresses of the wireless net-
work cards for these clients in the Allowed Addresses list in the MAC-Filter menu (see
Fields in the menu MAC-Filter
A list of all WLAN networks is displayed in the Wireless LAN->WLAN->Wireless Net-
works (VSS) menu.
10.1.2.1 Edit or New
Choose the icon to edit existing entries. Choose the New button to configure additional
wireless networks.
and enter the relevant key in the access point un-
with WPA Mode =
on page 192).
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, of your access point. Set
and do not know the SSID set-
. This method contains hardware-
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