User's Manual
RLX2 Industrial Hotspot Series
ProSoftTechnology,Inc. Page105of208
February5,2015
Field
Description
SecurityMode
Thisunitsupportsboth“Personal”and“Enterprise”securitymodesaswell
asLegacyWEBencryptionmodesforinteroperabilitywithlegacydevices.
Thefollowingsecuritymodesettingsaresupported:
None–Notrecommended.
Personal–Securitymodeusingpre‐sharedkeyfornetworksthat
don’trequireanauthenticationserver.
En
terprise–SecuritymoderequiringtheuseofanexternalRadius
authenticationserver.
WEP–Legacysecuritysettingusingeither64or128‐bitkeyand
WEPencryption.
PersonalandEnterprisesecuritycanbeusedwith:
WPA–OriginalprotocolintroducedtoreplaceWEP.
WPA2–Latest8
02.11securityprotocolconformingtothe802.11i
standard.
WPA/WPA2–AllowsclientdevicestoconnectusingWPAifthey
donotsupportWPA2.
Encryptiontype(page106)
WPA‐AESisthepreferredencryptionmethod.Itcontainsthelatestupdates
tothe802.11standardsforbestsecurity.However,somelegacydevicesdo
notyetsupporttheseupdates.Therefore,afewcombinationsoflegacy
methodscanbeselected.
Availableencryptiontypesare:
None(notrecommended)
WPA‐AES‐LatestsecuritysettingusingWPA(pre‐sharedkey)
authenticationandAESenc
ryption.
WPA‐TKIP‐SecuritysettingusingWPA(pre‐sharedkey)authentication
andTKIPencryption.
WEP128‐Legacysecuritysettingusinga128‐bitkeyandWEP
encryption.
WEP64‐Legacysecuritysettingusinga64‐bitkeyandWEPenc
ryption.
WPAphrase(page106)
WPApassphraseofbetweeneightand63normalkeyboardcharacters.
WEPkey(page107)
FivenormaltextcharactersintheWEPkeyfield
MACFilter(page112)
RestrictsconnectionsbyMACaddress.
EditFilter
OpenstheMACfilter(page112)form,allowingthespecificationoftheMAC
addressesofdevicestoallowinthenetwork.
HideNetworkSSID(page
112)
HidestheNetworkSSID(NetworkName)fromother802.11users.Clients
canconnecttothe"hidden"networkbytypingtheNetworkSSID.