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Chapter 10: Configuring Security
None (Plain-text)
Note: You can also allow or prohibit the Broadcast SSID and enable/disable
Station Isolation as extra precautions as mentioned below.)
Field
Broadcast SSID
Station Isolation
Security Mode
10.2.2 None (Plain-text)
None (or plain-text security) means any data transferred to and from the 9160 G2
Wireless Gateway is not encrypted.
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To enable the Broadcast SSID, select the checkbox directly beside it. By default, the access point
broadcasts (allows) the Service Set Identifier (SSID) in its beacon frames.
You can suppress (prohibit) this broadcast to discourage stations from automatically discovering your
access point. When the AP's broadcast SSID is suppressed, the network name will not be displayed
in the List of Available Networks on a client station. Instead, the client must have the exact network
name configured in the supplicant before it will be able to connect.
To enable station isolation, select the checkbox directly beside it.
• When Station Isolation is disabled, wireless clients can communicate with one another
normally by sending traffic through the access point.
• When Station Isolation is enabled, the access point blocks communication between
wireless clients. The access point still allows data traffic between its wireless clients and
wired devices on the network, but not among wireless clients. The traffic blocking extends
to wireless clients connected to the network via WDS links; these clients cannot
communicate with each other when Station Isolation is on. See Chapter 20: "Wireless
Distribution System" for more information about WDS.
Select the Security Mode. Select one of the following:
• "None (Plain-text)" on page 100.
• "Static WEP" on page 102.
• "IEEE 802.1x" on page 107.
• "WPA Personal" on page 109.
• "WPA Enterprise" on page 112.
For a Guest network, the only security mode that can be applied is "None (Plain-text)". (For more
information, see Chapter 14: "Setting up Guest Access".)
Security modes other than "None (Plain-text)" apply only to configuration of the "Internal" network.
Table 10.5 Security Settings
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