User manual ASUS WL-100GE

[. . . ] 5 Product features. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Hardware connections . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 ConnectingtotheInternet. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Before you proceed. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7 Preparing your WAN . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . [. . . ] Press Save/Apply to save and activate the settings. Settingupawirelesssecurity To protect your wireless network, you need to set up a security mechanism at both WL-AM604g and the wireless clients. Networkauthentication Network authentication uses certain types of mechanism to identify authenticated wireless clients. WL-AM604g supports the following authentication methods: Open: Shared: 802. 1X: This option disables authentication protection for your wireless network. Under the Open mode, any IEEE802. 11b/g wireless client can connect to your wireless network. This means using the same WEP keys for authentication and encryption. 802. 1X uses RADIUS (Remote Access Dial-Up User Service) server to authenticate wireless clients with a username and password. It can authenticate users with different levels of access rights. 17 xDSL AP LINK ACT 4 3 LAN 2 1 ! WL-AM604g11gWiFiADSLRouterUserManual WPA/WPA2: WPA stands for WiFi-Protected Access. WPA provides two security modes for Home/SOHO user and enterprise network. The former solution adopts Pre-Shared Key for authentication, and the latter uses the existing 802. 1X RADIUS server in the enterprise network to process the authentication requests. WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK: WPA-PSK (Pre-Shared Key) is the solution for home and SOHO users who have no 802. 11X authentication server within the LAN. To set up WPA-PSK, you need to key in a passphrase and let the system generate the key. Combination of letters, numbers and non-alphanumeric characters is recommended for ensuring security. Encryption Encryption is used to convert plain text data into unreadable codes with certain type of algorithm before capsulation for wireless transmission. Select 802. 1X in the NetworkAuthentication field to enable authentication using RADIUS server in your network. 3. Key in the RADIUSServerIPaddress, RADIUSport (the default value is 1812), and RADIUSKey. You can choose to enable or disable data encryption. If you want to encrypt data, select Enable in the WEP Encryption field, select 64-bit or 128-bit Encryption Strength for key length. Click SetEncryptioinKeys button to set up the keys. Refer to Open mode Step 4 for key configuration. Press Save/Apply to save and activate the settings. Click Wireless->Security in the navigation menu to open the configuration page. Select WPA/WPA2 in the NetworkAuthentication field to enable RADIUS server authentication and advanced encryption methods. 20 WL-AM604g11gWiFiADSLRouterUserManual xDSL AP LINK ACT 4 3 LAN 2 1 ! 3. Set the WPA2Preauthentication to Enabled if you want to use this function. By default, the Network Re-auth Interval is 36000 seconds. [. . . ] Click AdvancedSetup->Routing->DefaultGateway to open the configuration page. 2. By default, automatic assigned default gateway is enabled, that is, the router accepts the first received gateway assignment from ISP. If your ISP specifies a gateway, uncheck EnableAutomaticAssignedDefaultGateway and enter the gateway address. Press Save/Apply to save and activate the settings. Settingupthestaticroute For simple networks with only one router, you do not need to set up the static route. [. . . ]