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Figure 68 configuring ssid, Table 37 configuring ssid – ZyXEL Communications NWA-3160 Series User Manual

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Chapter 8 MBSSID and SSID

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WIRELESS > Security (one of the security profiles).
WIRELESS > RADIUS (one of the RADIUS profiles).
WIRELESS > MAC Filter (the MAC filter list, if activated in the SSID profile).
WIRELESS > Layer 2 Isolation (the layer 2 isolation list, if activated in the SSID

profile).

• Also, use the VLAN screen to set up wireless VLANs based on SSID.

Configure the fields in the above screens to use the settings in an SSID profile.
Select an SSID profile in the WIRELESS > SSID screen and click Edit to display the
following screen.

Figure 68 Configuring SSID

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 37 Configuring SSID

LABEL

DESCRIPTION

Profile Name

Enter a name identifying this profile.

SSID

When a wireless client scans for an AP to associate with, this is the name that

is broadcast and seen in the wireless client utility.

Hide Name (SSID)

Select Disable if you want the ZyXEL Device to broadcast this SSID (a

wireless client scanning for an AP will find this SSID). Alternatively, select

Enable to have the ZyXEL Device hide this SSID (a wireless client scanning

for an AP will not find this SSID).

Security

Select a security profile to use with this SSID profile. See

Section 7.9 on page

104

for more information.

RADIUS

Select a RADIUS profile from the drop-down list box, if you have a RADIUS

server configured. If you do not need to use RADIUS authentication, ignore

this field. See

Section 7.11 on page 112

for more information.