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automatically assign IP addresses to PCs (requesting DHCP client devices) on your LAN - you don't
have to apply for and assign IP addresses to PCs on your network.
A C C E S S I N G S E R V E R S F R O M T H E P U B L I C N E T W O R K
If you want special servers to be accessible to remote users across the Internet (e.g., an e-mail server, an
FTP server, or a web server), you can configure the WLA-5000AP to proxy the service using its (public)
IP address. It means a remote user can access the server by using the WLA-5000AP's IP address.
Upon receiving a request, the WLA-5000AP will re-direct the request to the actual server on your local
network.
A Security Overview
More and more people are concerned about protecting your local network from the Internet. The
WLA-5000AP provides several ways to keep your network secure:
Devices on your wired or wireless network are assigned private IP addresses; therefore remote
users from the Internet cannot see nor access them.
The WLA-5000AP implements IP packet filtering with SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection) capabili-
ties, which you can use to selectively filter (discard) packets to/from the Internet.
You can selectively restrict management from remote devices.
To address the growing security concern in a wireless LAN environment, different levels of security
can also be enabled in the WLA-5000AP, including:
To disable SSID broadcast so to restrict association to only client stations that are already pre-
configured with correct SSIDs
To enable WEP (Wireless Encryption Protocol) encryption to implement privacy of your data
To enable WPA (WiFi Protected Access) to assure authorized access as well as to implement pri-
vacy of your data. WPA comes with PSK (Pre-Shared Key) for SOHO users.
WLA-5000AP Features
High performance 11 Mbps (802.11b) or 54Mbps (802.11a/g) data rate
Wi-Fi, WPA certificated interoperability
Web-based, SNMP v1/v2, Telnet management
WPA with Pre-Shared Key Support
WPA with TKIP Support
WPA with Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) support
152-bit WEP support (Atheros Proprietary)
S/W (station/receiver based) DMZ support
VPN pass through support
Advanced NAT/Firewall features
Special applications support including MSN Messenger6.0, Netmeeting... etc
802.1d Spanning Tree Protocol support
RoHS complied
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