User`s guide

Authentication Type: choose the one of the following authentication modes for WEP

security method:

Open Authentication – station is authenticated automatically.

Shared Authentication – station is authenticated after the challenge, generated by

AP.

WEP Key Length: select the WEP Key length here, either 64-bit, or 128-bit (stronger).

Key Type: use the HEX or ASCII option to specify the character format for the WEP

key.

WEP Key: enter the WEP key for wireless traffic encryption/decryption:

For 64-bits – specify pre-shared key as 5 HEX (0-9, A-F or a-f) pairs

(e.g. 00112233AA) or 5 ASCII characters.

For 128-bits – specify pre-shared key as 13 HEX (0-9, A-F or a-f) pairs

(e.g. 00112233445566778899AABBCC) or 13 ASCII characters.

Key Index: select the Index of the WEP Key used.

WPA™ (IEEE 802.11i/D3.0) and WPA2™ (IEEE 802.11i) with pre-shared key

management protocol offers improved security methods. WPA™ and WPA2™ supports

the following ciphers for data encryption:

TKIP - Temporal Key Integrity Protocol which uses RC4 encryption algorithm.

CCMP - Counter Mode with Cipher Block Chaining Message Authentication Code

Protocol which uses the Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) algorithm.

The device will use the strongest cipher (CCMP) in Station and Access Point wireless

mode by default. If CCMP is not supported on the other side of the link the TKIP

encryption will be used - like in situation when the device acts as Access Point with WPA

security enabled and at least one wireless station (without CCMP support) is connected

to it. Enable WPA2™ (RSN) security:

Figure 13 – WPA Security Settings

WPA Pre-shared Key: enter a passphrase for WPA™ or WPA2™ encryption. The pre-

shared key is an alpha-numeric password between 8 and 63 characters long.

Click Change button to save the changes.