Cisco Cisco WAP571E Wireless-AC N Premium Dual Radio Outdoor Access Point Manual De Mantenimiento

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Cisco WAP571/E Administration Guide

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After new settings are saved, the corresponding processes may be stopped and 
restarted. When this happens, the WAP device may lose connectivity. We 
recommend that you change WAP device settings when a loss of connectivity will 
least affect your wireless clients. 

To delete a VAP, select the VAP and click Delete. To save your deletion permanently, 
click Save when complete. 

These sections describe the security settings that you configure, depending on 
your selection in the Security list on the Networks page.

If you select None as your security mode, no additional security settings are 
configurable on the AP. This mode means that any data transferred to and from the 
AP is not encrypted. This security mode can be useful during initial network 
configuration or for problem solving, but it is not recommended for regular use on 
the internal network because it is not secure.

Wired Equivalent Privacy (WEP) is a data encryption protocol for 802.11 wireless 
networks. All wireless stations and access points on the network are configured 
with a static 64-bit (40-bit secret key + 24-bit initialization vector (IV)) or 128-bit 
(104-bit secret key + 24-bit IV) Shared Key for data encryption.

Static WEP is not the most secure mode available, but it offers more protection 
than setting the security mode to None (Plain-text), as it does prevent an outsider 
from easily sniffing out unencrypted wireless traffic. 

WEP encrypts data moving across the wireless network based on a static key. 
(The encryption algorithm is a stream cipher called RC4.)

These parameters configure Static WEP:

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Transfer Key Index—A key index list. Key indexes 1 through 4 are available. 
The default is1.