User`s manual

AP 1 AP 2

STA 1

STA 2

STA 3

Wireless Link

Ethernet Link

Switch

WCI:

All APs in This

Subnet

WCI:

All APs in This

Subnet

Behavior of the “All APs on This Subnet” wireless client isolation option.

As illustrated in the first figure when AP 1 and AP 2 are using the “This AP

Only” option, wireless traffic between STA 1 and STA 2 is blocked by AP 1.

While wireless traffic between STA 2 and STA 3, which are associated with

different APs, is still allowed. If the “All APs in This Subnet” option is used as

shown in second figure, AP 1 and AP 2 communicates with each other via an

inter-AP protocol to share their STA association information to block wireless

traffic among all the STAs.

There are up to 7 security modes depending on AP model variations:

y Open System: No authentication, no data encryption.

y Static WEP: WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) keys must be manually

configured.

y Static TKIP (WPA-PSK): Only TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol)

mechanism of WPA (Wi-Fi Protected Access) is enabled. In this mode,

users have to specify the Pre-shared key, which will be used by the

TKIP engine as a master key to generate keys that actually encrypt

outgoing

y IEEE 802.1x EAP without Encryption (EAP-MD5): The IEEE 802.1x

functionality is enabled and the user-name/password-based EAP-

MD5 authentication is used. No data encryption.