ZyXEL Communications Prestige 662HW Series User Manual page 332

Prestige 662HW Series User's Guide
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network without entering usernames and passwords. This is the default setting.
Selecting Authentication Required means wireless stations have to enter usernames and
passwords before access to the wired network is allowed.
Select No Access Allowed to block all wireless stations access to the wired network.
The following fields are not available when you select No Authentication Required or No
Access Allowed.
ReAuthentica- Specify how often a client has to re-enter username and password to stay connected to the
tion Timer wired network.
(in second)
This field is activated only when you select Authentication Required in the Wireless Port
Control field. Enter a time interval between 10 and 9999 (in seconds). The default time
interval is 1800 seconds (or 30 minutes).
Idle Timeout (in The Prestige automatically disconnects a client from the wired network after a period of
second) inactivity. The client needs to enter the username and password again before access to the
wired network is allowed.
This field is activated only when you select Authentication Required in the Wireless Port
Control field. The default time interval is 3600 seconds (or 1 hour).
Key Press [SPACE BAR] to select 802.1x, WPA or WPA-PSK and press [ENTER].
Management
Protocol
This field is activated only when you select Authentication Required in the Wireless Port
Dynamic WEP
Key Exchange Control field. Also set the Authentication Databases field to RADIUS Only. Local user
database may not be used.
Select Disable to allow wireless stations to communicate with the access points without using
Dynamic WEP Key Exchange.
Select 64-bit WEP or 128-bit WEP to enable data encryption.
Up to 32 stations can access the Prestige when you configure Dynamic WEP Key Exchange.
This field is not available when you set Key Management Protocol to WPA or WPA-PSK.
PSK Type a pre-shared key from 8 to 63 case-sensitive ASCII characters (including spaces and
symbols) when you select WPA-PSK in the Key Management Protocol field.
WPA Mixed Select Enable to activate WPA mixed mode. Otherwise, select Disable and configure Group
Mode Data Privacy field.
Data Privacy for This field allows you to choose TKIP (recommended) or WEP for broadcast and multicast
Broadcast/ ("group") traffic if the Key Management Protocol is WPA and WPA Mixed Mode is disabled.
Multicast WEP is used automatically if you have enabled WPA Mixed Mode.
packets
All unicast traffic is automatically encrypted by TKIP when WPA or WPA-PSK Key
Management Protocol is selected.
WPA The WPA Broadcast/Multicast Key Update Timer is the rate at which the AP (if using WPA-
Broadcast/ PSK key management) or RADIUS server (if using WPA key management) sends a new
Multicast Key group key out to all clients. The re-keying process is the WPA equivalent of automatically
Update Timer changing the WEP key for an AP and all stations in a WLAN on a periodic basis. Setting of the
WPA Broadcast/Multicast Key Update Timer is also supported in WPA-PSK mode. The
Prestige default is 1800 seconds (30 minutes).
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Table 35-2 Menu 23.4 System Security : IEEE802.1x
DESCRIPTION
System Security