GIGABYTE GN-A11G - Manual (Page 40)

GN-A11G Wireless LAN Access Point
WPA Pre-Shared Key
One of the biggest drawbacks to traditional WEP security is changing the
encryption key. Even you change encrypted keys any time; you still can not
select all APs and wireless LAN adapter while changing encrypted keys.
Instead, rekeying is a tedious manual process and is completely
impractical
for large organizations. After all, the instant you rekey an access point, none
of the clients will be able to access it until they are also rekeyed.
But with WPA, the rekeying of global encryption keys is required. In the case
of unicast traffic, the encryption key is changed after every frame using
Temporary Key Integrity Protocol (TKIP). This protocol allows key changes
to occur on a frame-by-frame basis and to be automatically synchronized
between the access point and the wireless client. Global rekeying works by
advertising the new keys to wireless clients.
WDS Settings
The WDS function allows several of the access points to compose a wide
Wireless LAN network. Please note all APs shall be set on the same channel
and the BSSID of APs connected to the network shall be set in the list.
WDS technologies of all AP varies so may not be executed among APs of
different brand names.
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