Specifications

10-2 Configuring User Encryption
Table 10‐1onpage 10‐2liststheencryptiontypessupportedbyMSSandtheirdefaultstates.
Figure 10‐1showstheclientsupportwhenthedefaultencryptionsettingsareused.A radiousing
thedefaultencryptionsettingsencryptstrafficfornon‐WPAdynamicWEPclientsbutnotfor
WPAclientsorstatic
WEPclients.Theradiodisassociatesfromtheseotherclients.
Table 10-1 Wireless Encryption Defaults
Encryption Type Client Support Default State
Configuration Required in MSS
RSN RSN clients
Non-RSN clients
Disabled • Enable the RSN information element (IE).
• Specify the supported cipher suites (CCMP,
TKIP, 40-bit WEP, 104-bit WEP). TKIP is
enabled by default when the RSN IE is
enabled.
WPA WPA clients
Non-WPA clients
Disabled • Enable the WPA information element (IE).
• Specify the supported cipher suites (CCMP,
TKIP, 40-bit WEP, 104-bit WEP). TKIP is
enabled by default when the WPA IE is
enabled.
Dynamic WEP WEP clients
(WPA and RSN
not supported)
Enabled None
Static WEP WEP clients
(WPA and RSN
not supported)
Disabled • Configure the static key(s).
• Assign keys to multicast and unicast traffic.