Encrypting Wireless Lan Transmissions - Motorola VT2500 User Manual

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Encrypting Wireless LAN Transmissions

To prevent unauthorized viewing of data transmitted over your WLAN, you must encrypt your wireless
transmissions.
Use the Wireless > SECURITY — basic
Configure on the VT2500
If all of your wireless clients support Wi-Fi
Protected Access (WPA), we recommend you
follow Configuring WPA on the VT2500
Otherwise, perform If you need to restore the
wireless defaults, click Reset Security Defaults.
If all of your wireless clients support WPA encryption, we recommend using WPA instead of WEP because WPA:
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Provides much stronger encryption and is more secure
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Provides authentication to ensure that only authorized users can log on to your WLAN
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Is much easier to configure
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Uses a standard algorithm on all compliant products to generate a key from a textual passphrase
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Will be incorporated into the new IEEE 802.11i wireless networking standard
For new wireless LANs, we recommend purchasing client adapters that support WPA, such as the
Wireless Notebook Adapter
For more information about the benefits of WPA, see the Wi-Fi Protected Access Web page:
http://www.wifialliance.org/OpenSection/protected_access.asp.
VT2400/VT2500 Series Voice Gateway User Guide
Configuration: Basic
to encrypt your transmitted data. Choose one of:
Required On Each Wireless Client
If you use a local pre-shared key (WPA-PSK) passphrase, you
must configure the identical passphrase to the
wireless client. Home and small-office settings typically use a
local passphrase.
Configuring a RADIUS server requires specialized knowledge
that is beyond the scope of this guide. For more information,
contact your network administrator.
You must configure each wireless client with the VT2500's WEP
key (must be identical)
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Advanced TCP/IP Wireless
and Wireless USB Adapter
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