Wireless Vap Settings - Wpa / Wpa2 Setting - AMX NXA-WAP250G Operation/Reference Manual

Wireless VAP Settings - WPA / WPA2 Setting

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) employs a combination of technologies to provide an enhanced security
solution for wireless networks. The WPA Pre-shared Key (WPA-PSK) mode for small networks uses a
common password phrase that must be manually distributed to all clients that want to connect to the
network.
WPA2 is a further security enhancement that includes the now ratified IEEE 802.11i wireless security
standard. Both WPA and WPA2 provide very robust security through the support of the Advanced
Encryption Standard (AES) and Temporal Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP) encryption ciphers (FIG. 31).
FIG. 31 Wireless VAP 1 Setting - WPA-PSK Wireless Security
The computationally intensive operations of AES encryption requires hardware
support on client devices. Before implementing AES in the network, be sure that
wireless client hardware is AES or WPA2 compliant.
The items on this page include:
If you select WPA(2)-PSK, you must provide a Key (see WPA-PSK Key below).
If you select WPA(2), you must configure the Radius server settings for WPA / WPA2
authentication (see the Network Settings - Radius Server Setting section on
page 37).
NXA-WAP250G 802.11b/g Wireless Access Point
WPA/WPA2 Status: Enables WPA-PSK or WPA2-PSK security on the VAP interface. When
enabled, WEP clients are not supported. (default: Disabled).
Authentication: Select an authentication method. Supported methods include:
WPA-PSK, WPA2-PSK, WPA2-PSK Mix Mode
WPA, WPA2, WPA-WPA2 Mix Mode
Key Cipher Mode: Selects the encryption cipher to use for multicast and unicast data traffic:
Auto: Uses TKIP for the multicast cipher and TKIP or AES for the unicast cipher
depending on the capability of associated clients.
AES: Uses AES keys for both multicast and unicast encryption.
TKIP: Uses TKIP keys for both multicast and unicast encryption.
System Configuration
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