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Chapter 7 Wireless LAN
P-2612HNU-Fx User’s Guide
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the wireless stations can associate with any AP or peer computer and listen to any
transmitted data that is not encrypted.
Shared key mode involves a shared secret key to authenticate the wireless station
to the AP or peer computer. This requires you to enable the wireless LAN security
and use same settings on both the wireless station and the AP or peer computer.
In order to configure and enable WEP encryption, click Network > Wireless LAN
> Security. Select Static WEP or Shared WEP from the Security Mode list.
Figure 37 Network > Wireless LAN > Security: Static WEP/Shared WEP
The following table describes the wireless LAN security labels in this screen.
Table 26 Network > Wireless LAN > Security: Static WEP/Shared WEP
LABEL DESCRIPTION
SSID Select the SSID security profile you want to configure.
Security
Mode
Choose Static WEP or Shared WEP from the drop-down list box.
•Select Static WEP to have the ZyXEL Device allow association with
wireless clients that use Open System mode. Data transfer is encrypted
as long as the wireless client has the correct WEP key for encryption.
The ZyXEL Device authenticates wireless clients using Shared Key
mode that have the correct WEP key.
•Select Shared WEP to have the ZyXEL Device authenticate only those
wireless clients that use Shared Key mode and have the correct WEP
key.
WEP Keys Enter a WEP key that will be used to encrypt data. Both the ZyXEL Device
and the wireless stations must use the same WEP key for data
transmission.
If you want to manually set the WEP key, enter any 5 or 13 characters
(ASCII string) or 10 or 26 hexadecimal characters ("0-9", "A-F") for a 64-
bit or 128-bit WEP key respectively.
Apply Click this to save your changes back to the ZyXEL Device.
Reset Click this to reload the previous configuration for this screen.