ZyXEL Communications 200 Series - Manual (Page 238)

Chapter 10 Interface
ZyWALL USG 100/200 Series User’s Guide
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The following table describes the general wireless LAN labels in this screen.
Table 67 Network > Interface > WLAN > Add (No Security)
LABEL DESCRIPTION
General Settings
Enable
Interface Select this option to turn on the wireless LAN interface.
Interface Name Specify a number from 1~8 to complete the name for this wireless LAN interface.
Description Enter a description of this interface. It is not used elsewhere. You can use
alphanumeric and
()+/:=?!*#@$_%- characters, and it can be up to 60
characters long.
Zone Select the zone to which you want the WLAN interface to belong.
Virtual Access
Point Settings
SSID (Service Set IDentity) The SSID identifies the Service Set with which a wireless
station is associated. Wireless stations associating to the access point (AP) must
have the same SSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit ASCII
characters) for the wireless LAN. To make your wireless network more secure,
change the default SSID to something that is difficult to guess.
Hide SSID
Broadcast Select to hide the SSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot obtain
the SSID through scanning.
Block Intra-
BSS Traffic Select this to prevent wireless clients in this profile’s BSS from communicating
with one another.
Maximum
Associations Specify the highest number of wireless clients that are allowed to connect to the
wireless interface at the same time.
WLAN Security
Settings Click Advanced to display more settings. Click Basic to display fewer settings.
Security Type Use this field to select the type of security to use for this wireless LAN interface.
Select none to not use any security. See the following sections for details on the
other security types.
802.1x Authentication server (IEEE 802.1x) settings are available when you use no
security or WEP security and click Advanced.
Select the check box to enable wireless user authentication through an external
authentication server.
RADIUS
Server IP
Address Enter the IP address of the external authentication server in dotted decimal
notation.
RADIUS
Server Port Enter the RADIUS server’s listening port number (the default is 1812).
RADIUS
Server Secret Enter a password (up to 31 alphanumeric characters) as the key to be shared
between the external authentication server and the ZyWALL. The key is not sent
over the network. This key must be the same on the external authentication
server and ZyWALL.
IP Address
Assignment
IP Address Enter the IP address for this interface.
Subnet Mask Enter the subnet mask of this interface in dot decimal notation. The subnet mask
indicates what part of the IP address is the same for all computers in the network.
Interface
Parameters Click Advanced to display more settings. Click Basic to display fewer settings.