- Fortress Wireless Access Bridge User Guide

Fortress Bridge: Administration
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4.3 Trusted Devices
Some wireless devices—IP phones, digital scales or printers,
and APs, for example—are not equipped to run additional
software such as the Fortress Secure Client. In order to allow
such a device access to the encrypted zone, the Fortress
Bridge must be configured to identify it as a
Trusted Device—to
which the narrowest possible access rules should be applied.
All traffic to and from Trusted Devices is sent in the clear
(unencrypted).
NOTE: Tr u s t e d D e -
vices must be
uniquely na med on the
Bridge. An error mes-
sage wi ll result if you at-
tempt to add a Trusted
Device with a name al-
ready in use.
Once its status as a Trusted Device has been configured, the
Bridge uses the settings you establish for it to identify, track
and manage access for the device on the network. These are:
 TD Identifier - accepts up to twelve, alphanumeric
characters to uniquely identify the Trusted Device.
 IP Address - establishes the device’s IP address—or, by
entering the word
any, configures the Trusted Device to
accept any IP address, as provided by the network DHCP
(Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) server.
CAUTION: Specify-
ing that
any port
can access a TD can
pose a significant secu-
rity risk.
 MAC Address - establishes the device’s MAC address.
 Port Number(s) - specifies the port numbers through which
the Trusted Device can access the encrypted zone—or, by
entering the word
any, configures access for the device
through any port.
For reference, the screen displays commonly used port
numbers to the right of the configuration fields.
When one or more Trusted Devices are configured on the
Fortress Bridge, the Bridge will continually signal—through the
flashing green, front-panel cleartext LED (labeled
Clr)—that
cleartext is being passed on the network.
While the cleartext
signal occurs in either operating mode, in FIPS terminology, it
indicates that the Bridge is in
Bypass Mode (BPM)
CAUTION: Net-
work security is
maximized when the
smallest possible num-
ber of Trusted Devices
are configured and the
smallest effective set of
ports is specified for
each.
4.3.1 Adding Trusted Devices
Trusted Devices are added one at a time.
To add a Trusted Device:
1 Log on to the Bridge GUI admin account and choose
TRUSTED DEVICES from the menu on the left.
2 On the TRUSTED DEVICES screen, in the ADD TRUSTED DEVICE
frame, enter valid values into the relevant fields (described
above).
3 Click Add to save the new Trusted Device (or Cancel the
addition).