ZyXEL Communications NWA3160 User Manual

Chapter 10 MBSSID and SSID

ZyXEL NWA-3160 Series User’s Guide

• 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 85   Configuring SSID

The following table describes the labels in this screen.

Table 50   Configuring SSID

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 

 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 

 for more information.