Chapter 6. Basic Service Zone Configuration; The Concept Of Service Zone; Service Zone Setup; Tag-Based Or Port-Based Service Zones - 4IPNET WHG315 User Manual

Chapter 6. Basic Service Zone Configuration

6.1

The Concept of Service Zone

Service Zones are virtual partitions of the physical LAN side of a 4ipnet Controller.
Similar to VLANs, they can be separately managed and defined, having their own
user landing pages, network interface settings, DHCP servers, authentication
options, policies and security settings, and so on. By associating a unique VLAN Tag
(when it is tag-based) and an SSID with its Service Zone, administrator can flexibly
separate the wired and wireless networks easily.
6.2

Service Zone Setup

6.2.1. Tag-based or Port-based Service Zones

4ipnet WHG controllers offer two modes of physical LAN port to service zone
mappings, namely port-based mode and tag-based mode. Intuitively as the name
suggests, Port-based mode means that each LAN port services one or none Service
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