Rockwell Automation 1783-WAPxxx Stratix 5100 Wireless Access Point User Manual - Manual (Page 83)

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Stratix 5100 Device Manager Parameter Definitions Chapter 4
Radio Configuration Settings on the Easy Setup Page
This page contains information about the status of GigabitEthernet and Radio-
802.11b, Radio-802.11a, or Radio-802.11g interfaces, depending on the radio
that is installed on the access point. This is an abbreviated parameters from the
radio settings tab in Network>Network Interface.
Figure 33 - Radio Configuration Settings on the Network Configuration Page
Table 11 - Radio Configuration Parameter Descriptions
Parameter Description
SSID Broadcast SSID in Beacon
Identifies the SSID that client devices must use to associate with a device. You must create an
SSID before you can enable the radio interface.The SSID helps client devices distinguish
between multiple wireless networks in the same vicinity.
In this text field, you can not use these characters: TAB, ?, $, +, !, #, and ;.
Security • No Security
• WEP Key
• EAP Authentication
• WPA
VLAN Choose a VLAN setting.
• VLAN
If you use VLANs on your wireless LAN and assign SSIDs to VLANs, you can create multiple
SSIDs using any of the four security settings on the Express Security page. However, if you do
not use VLANs on your wireless LAN, the security options that you can assign to SSIDs are
limited because, on the Express Security page, encryption settings and authentication types
are linked. Without VLANs, encryption settings (WEP and ciphers) apply to an interface,
such as the 2.4 GHz radio, and you cannot use more than one encryption setting on an
interface.
• No VLAN
Select this setting if you are not using VLANs.
• Enable VLAN ID
Select this setting if you want to specify the virtual Ethernet LAN identification number tied
to the SSID.
• Native VLAN
Select this setting if you want this VLAN ID to be the native VLAN.
Access Point Choose Access Point (Root) if the wireless device is connected to the wired LAN.
A root device; accepts associations from clients and bridges wireless traffic from the clients to
the wireless LAN. This setting can be applied to any access point.
Specifies that the unit operates as an access point connected to the main Ethernet LAN
network. In this mode, wireless client devices are allowed to associate to the access point.