A Security Overview - Repotec RP WR0582 ML User Manual

your wireless network to access the Internet, to communicate with other wireless devices on your
wireless network, or to communicate with devices on your wired LAN network.
Since 802.11g is based on the same 2.4GHz radio band as the 802.11b technology, the 802.11a+g
Router can inter-operate with existing 11Mbps 802.11b devices. Therefore you can protect your
existing investment in 802.11b client cards, and migrate to the high-speed 802.11g standard as your
needs grow.
Besides, the 802.11a+g Router also provides connection to 802.11a client devices. It can provide both
802.11a and 802.11b/g connections simultaneously.

A Security Overview

More and more people are concerned about protecting your local network from the Internet. The
802.11a+g Router 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 802.11a+g Router implements IP packet filtering with SPI (Stateful Packet Inspection)
capabilities, 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 802.11a+g Router, 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
Support of Access Control List to allow you to grant/deny access to/from specified wireless
stations (using MAC addresses)
Provisioning of centralized authentication through 802.1x and RADIUS Server(s).
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