ZyXEL Communications ZyAIR B-500 用户手册
ZyAIR B-500 Wireless Access Point User’s Guide
Getting to Know Your ZyAIR
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Chapter 1
Getting to Know Your ZyAIR
This chapter introduces the main features and applications of the ZyAIR.
1.1 Introducing the ZyAIR Wireless Access Point
The ZyAIR extends the range of your existing wired network without any additional wiring efforts. The
ZyAIR provides easy network access to mobile users. The ZyAIR offers highly secured wireless connectivity
to your wired network with IEEE 802.1x, Wi-Fi Protected Access, WEP data encryption and MAC address
filtering.
ZyAIR provides easy network access to mobile users. The ZyAIR offers highly secured wireless connectivity
to your wired network with IEEE 802.1x, Wi-Fi Protected Access, WEP data encryption and MAC address
filtering.
The ZyAIR is easy to install and configure. The embedded web-based configurator and SNMP network
management enables remote configuration and management of your ZyAIR.
management enables remote configuration and management of your ZyAIR.
1.2 ZyAIR
Features
The following sections describe the features of the ZyAIR.
10/100M Auto-negotiating Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Interface
This auto-negotiating feature allows the ZyAIR to detect the speed of incoming transmissions and adjust
appropriately without manual intervention. It allows data transfer of either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps in either
half-duplex or full-duplex mode depending on your Ethernet network.
appropriately without manual intervention. It allows data transfer of either 10 Mbps or 100 Mbps in either
half-duplex or full-duplex mode depending on your Ethernet network.
10/100M Auto-crossover Ethernet/Fast Ethernet Interface
The LAN interface automatically adjusts to either a crossover or straight-through Ethernet cable.
Reset Button
The ZyAIR reset button is built into the top panel. Use this button to restore the factory default password to
1234; IP address to 192.168.1.2, subnet mask to 255.255.255.0.
1234; IP address to 192.168.1.2, subnet mask to 255.255.255.0.
Brute-Force Password Guessing Protection
The ZyAIR has a special protection mechanism to discourage brute-force password guessing attacks on the
ZyAIR's management interfaces. You can specify a wait-time that must expire before entering a fourth
password after three incorrect passwords have been entered. Please see the appendix for details about this
feature.
ZyAIR's management interfaces. You can specify a wait-time that must expire before entering a fourth
password after three incorrect passwords have been entered. Please see the appendix for details about this
feature.