ZyXEL Communications G-2000 Plus Manual Do Utilizador

ZyAIR G-2000 Plus User’s Guide

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Chapter 3 Wizard Setup

Wi-Fi Protected Access (WPA) is a subset of the IEEE 802.11i security specification draft. 
Key differences between WPA and WEP are user authentication and improved data 
encryption.The encryption mechanisms used for WPA and WPA-PSK are the same. The only 
difference between the two is that WPA-PSK uses a simple common password, instead of 
user-specific credentials. The common-password approach makes WPA-PSK susceptible to 
brute-force password-guessing attacks but it’s still an improvement over WEP as it employs 
an easier-to-use, consistent, single, alphanumeric password.

Therefore, if you don’t have an external RADIUS server you should use WPA-PSK (WPA -
Pre-Shared Key) that only requires a single (identical) password entered into each access 
point, wireless gateway and wireless client. As long as the passwords match, a client will be 
granted access to a WLAN.

General Setup contains administrative and system-related information. 

The Domain Name entry is what is propagated to the DHCP clients on the LAN. If you leave 
this blank, the domain name obtained by DHCP from the ISP is used. While you must enter 
the host name (System Name) on each individual computer, the domain name can be assigned 
from the ZyAIR via DHCP.