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LevelOne WAP-6101 User Manual

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7. VLAN ID: This device supports mapping of a SSID to a certain VLAN ID to

separate workgroups across wireless and wired domains. By default, it is not

enables. If you enabled this function, you have to specify a VLAN ID for the

wireless network.

8. Max Supported Stations: You can specify the number of maximum stations that

can associate to the SSID simultaneously.

9. Channel: The radio channel number. The permissible channels depend on the

Regulatory Domain. The factory default setting is auto channel selection. It’s

recommended to choose a channel that is not used in your environment to

reduce radio interference

10. Wireless Mode: The RF1 module supports 802.11b/g/n modes. You can also

choose “N only”, “G/N mixed” or “B/G/N mixed”. The factory default setting is
“B/G/N mixed”.

11. Bandwidth:

The default setting for Bandwidth is “Auto”. You can change it to

“20MHz” with care if some clients are suffering from the connectivity problem in

higher bandwidth setting.

12. Authentication & Encryption: You may select one of the following

authentications to secure your wireless network: Open (include 802.1x), Shared,

Auto, WPA-PSK, WPA, WPA2-PSK, WPA2, WPA-PSK/WPA2-PSK, or WPA

/WPA2.
Open

Open system authentication simply consists of two communications. The first

is an authentication request by the client that contains the station ID (typically

the MAC address). This is followed by an authentication response from the AP

containing a success or failure message. An example of when a failure may

occur is if the client's MAC address is explicitly excluded in the AP

’s

configuration.

In this mode you can also enable the 802.1x feature if you have another

RADIUS server for user authentication. You need to input IP address, port,

shared key of RADIUS server here.

In this mode, you can only choose “None” or “WEP” in the encryption field.

Shared

Shared key authentication relies on the fact that both stations taking part in the