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Chapter 26 Wireless LAN Setup

26.2.1 Wireless LAN MAC Address Filter

The next layer of security is MAC address filter. To allow a wireless station to associate with
the Prestige, enter the MAC address of the wireless LAN adapter on that wireless station in the
MAC address table.

Channel ID Press [SPACE BAR] to select a channel. This allows you to set the operating frequency/

channel depending on your particular region.

RTS

Threshold

RTS (Request To Send) threshold (number of bytes) enables RTS/CTS handshake.

Data with its frame size larger than this value will perform the RTS/CTS handshake.

Setting this attribute to be larger than the maximum MSDU (MAC Service Data Unit) size

turns off the RTS/CTS handshake. Setting this attribute to zero turns on the RTS/CTS

handshake. Enter a value between 0 and 2432.

Frag.

Threshold

The threshold (number of bytes) for the fragmentation boundary for directed messages.

It is the maximum data fragment size that can be sent. Enter a value between 256 and

2432.

WEP

WEP (Wired Equivalent Privacy) provides data encryption to prevent wireless stations

from accessing data transmitted over the wireless network.
Select Disable allows wireless stations to communicate with the access points without

any data encryption.
Select 64-bit WEP, 128-bit WEP or 256-bit WEP to for the type of data encryption. WEP

causes performance degradation.

Default Key

Enter the number of the key as an active key.

Key 1 to Key

4

If you chose 64-bit WEP in the WEP Encryption field, then enter 5 characters or 10

hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") preceded by 0x for each key (1-4).

If you chose 128-bit WEP in the WEP Encryption field, then enter 13 characters or 26

hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") preceded by 0x for each key (1-4).
If you chose 256-bit WEP in the WEP Encryption field, then enter 29 characters or 58

hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") preceded by 0x for each key (1-4).
There are four data encryption keys to secure your data from eavesdropping by

unauthorized wireless users. The values for the keys must be set up exactly the same on

the access points as they are on the wireless stations.

Edit MAC

Address

Filter

To edit MAC address filtering table, press [SPACE BAR] to select Yes and press

[ENTER] to open menu 3.5.1.

When you have completed this menu, press [ENTER] at the prompt “

Press ENTER to Confirm

or ESC to Cancel:

” to save your configuration, or press [ESC] at any time to cancel.

Table 95 Menu 3.5 - Wireless LAN Setup (continued)

FIELD

DESCRIPTION

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