Hawking HWRN2 Router Manual PDF (Setup & Configuration Guide)

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2-7-3-2 WEP - Wired Equivalent Privacy

When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WEP encryption,

and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup item:

Key Length (2):

There are two types of WEP key length: 64-bit and 128-bit.

Using ‘128-bit’ is safer than ’64-bit’, but will reduce some

data transfer performance.

Key Format (3):

There are two types of key format: ASCII and Hex. When you

select a key format, the number of characters of key will be

displayed. For example, if you select ’64-bit’ as key length,

and ‘Hex’ as key format, you’ll see the message at the right

of ‘Key Format’ is ‘Hex (10 characters), which means the

length of WEP key is 10 characters.

Default Tx Key (4):

You can set up to four sets of WEP key, and you can decide

which key is being used by default here.

If you don’t know

which one you should use, select ‘Key 1’.

Encryption Key

Input WEP key characters here, the number of

1 to 4 (5-8):

characters must be the same as the number displayed at ‘Key

Format’ field. You can use any alphanumerical characters

(0-9, a-z, and A-Z) if you select ‘ASCII’ key format, and if

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you select ‘Hex’ as key format, you can use characters 0-9,

a-f, and A-F. You must enter at least one encryption key here,

and if you entered multiple WEP keys, they should not be

same with each other.

Enable 802.1x

IEEE 802.1x is an authentication protocol. Every

Authentication (9):

user must use a valid account to login to this wireless router

before accessing the wireless LAN. The authentication is

processed by a RADIUS server. This mode only authenticates

user by IEEE 802.1x, but it does not encryption the data

during communication. If there is a RADIUS server in you

environment, please enable this function. Check this box and

another sub-menu will appear:

RADIUS Server

Please input the IP address of radius

IP address (10):

server here

RADIUS Server

Please input the port number of radius

Port (11):

server here.

RADIUS Server

Please input the port number of radius

Password (12):

Enter password here.

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TIPS: Some examples of WEP key

(DO NOT USE!)

ASCII (5 characters): pilot

phone

23561

2Hyux

#@xmL

ASCII (13 characters): digitalFAMILY

82Jh26xHy3m&n

Hex (10 characters): 287d2aa732

1152dabc85

Hex (26 characters): 9284bcda8427c9e036f7abcd84

To improve security level, do not use those words which can be found in a dictionary or

too easy to remember! (‘pilot’ and ‘phone’ listed above are bad examples; just intended

to show you how a WEP key looks like). Wireless clients will remember the WEP key, so

you only have to input the WEP key on wireless client once, and it is worth it to use a

complicated WEP key to improve security level.

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After you finish WEP setting, please click ‘Apply’ button (10) and the

following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to go back to previous setup menu; to continue on

other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the

settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is

rebooting).

2-7-3-3 Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA):

When you select this mode, the wireless router will use WPA encryption,

and the following setup menu will be shown on your web browser:

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

WPA Unicast

Please select a type of WPA cipher suite.

Cipher Suite (2):

Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and WPA2

Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make sure

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your wireless client support the cipher you selected.

Pre-shared

Select the type of pre-shared key, you

Key Format (3):

can select Passphrase (8 or more alphanumerical characters,

up to 63), or Hex (64 characters of 0-9, and a-f).

Pre-shared

Please input the WPA passphrase here.

Key (4):

It’s not recommended to use a word that can be found in a

dictionary due to security reason.

After you finish WPA Pre-shared key setting, please click ‘Apply’ button

(5) and the following message will be displayed on your web browser:

Please click ‘Continue’ to go back to previous setup menu; to continue on

other setup procedures, or click ‘Apply’ to reboot the router so the

settings will take effect (Please wait for about 30 seconds while router is

rebooting).

NOTE: Some wireless clients (especially those manufactured before

year 2003) only support WEP or WPA (TKIP) cipher. A driver upgrade

would be needed for those clients to use WPA and WPA2 encryption.

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2-7-3-4 WPA RADIUS:

If you have a RADIUS server, this router can work with it and provide

safer wireless authentication.

Here are descriptions of every setup items:

WPA Unicast

Please select a type of WPA cipher suite.

Cipher Suite:

Available options are: WPA (TKIP), WPA2 (AES), and WPA2

Mixed. You can select one of them, but you have to make sure

your wireless client support the cipher you selected.

RADIUS Server

Please input the IP address of your

IP address (3):

Radius authentication server here.

RADIUS Server

Please input the port number of your

Port (4):

Radius authentication server here.

Default setting is 1812.

RADIUS Server

Please input the password of your Radius

Password (5):

authentication server here.

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