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Security
The
Wireless
–
Security
screen allows you to select the network authentication method and to
enable or disable WEP encryption.
Note
that depending on the network authentication that is selected, the screen will change
accordingly so additional fields can be configured for the specific authentication method.
Network authentication methods include the following
—
Open
—
anyone can access the network. The default is a disabled WEP encryption setting
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Shared
—
WEP encryption is enabled and encryption key strength of 64-bit or 128-bit needs
to be selected. Click on Set Encryption Keys to manually set the network encryption keys. Up
to 4 different keys can be set and you can come back to select which one to use at anytime.
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802.1X
—
requires mutual authentication between a client station and the router by including
a RADIUS-based authentication server. Information about the RADIUS server such as its IP
address, port and key must be entered. WEP encryption is also enabled and the encryption
strength must also be selected.
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WPA
(Wi-Fi Protected Access)
—
usually used for the larger Enterprise environment, it uses
a RADIUS server and TKIP (Temporal Key Integrity Protocol) encryption (instead of WEP
encryption which is disabled). TKIP uses128-bit dynamic session keys (per user, per session,
and per packet keys).
WPA-PSK
(Wi-Fi Protected Access
–
Pre-Shared Key)
—
WPA for home and SOHO
environments also using the same strong TKIP encryption, per-packet key construction, and
key management that WPA provides in the enterprise environment. The main difference is
that the password is entered manually. A group re-key interval time is also required.
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