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ZyWALL 5/35/70 Series User’s Guide

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Chapter 10 Wireless LAN

Figure 94 NETWORK > WIRELESS CARD: No Security

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 55 NETWORK > WIRELESS CARD: No Security

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Enable
Wireless Card

The wireless LAN through a wireless LAN card is turned off by default, before you
enable the wireless LAN you should configure some security by setting MAC filters
and/or 802.1x security; otherwise your wireless LAN will be vulnerable upon enabling
it. Select the check box to enable the wireless LAN.

Wireless Card

This field displays whether or not a compatible ZyXEL wireless LAN card is installed.

ESSID

(Extended Service Set IDentity) The ESSID identifies the Service Set with which a
wireless station is associated. Wireless stations associating to the access point (AP)
must have the same ESSID. Enter a descriptive name (up to 32 printable 7-bit ASCII
characters) for the wireless LAN.

Bridge to

Select LAN to use the wireless card as part of the LAN.

Select DMZ to use the wireless card as part of the DMZ.

Select WLAN to use the wireless card as part of the WLAN.

The ZyWALL restarts after you change the wireless card setting.

Note: If you set the wireless card to be part of the LAN or DMZ, you

can still use wireless access. The firewall will treat the wireless
card as part of the LAN or DMZ respectively.

Hide ESSID

Select to hide the ESSID in the outgoing beacon frame so a station cannot obtain the
ESSID through scanning.

Channel ID

This allows you to set the operating frequency/channel depending on your particular
region. Select a channel from the drop-down list box.

RTS/CTS
Threshold

The RTS (Request To Send) threshold (number of bytes) is for enabling RTS/CTS.
Data with its frame size larger than this value will perform the RTS/CTS handshake.
Setting this value to be larger than the maximum MSDU (MAC service data unit) size
turns off RTS/CTS. Setting this value to zero turns on RTS/CTS.

Select the check box to change the default value and enter a new value between 0 and
2432.