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Configuring the Access Point
Configuring Wireless Settings
Table 30. WLAN options
Option Description
Wireless Network This wireless network name is for management purposes
only, and is not visible to the user.
Wireless Availability This option controls whether or not the wireless network is
available to users (Off or On).
Broadcast SSID This option controls whether or not the WLAN SSID is
visible to anyone looking for wireless networks. Disabling
(hiding) the SSID requires the user to be told the correct
SSID before they can connect to your network.
SSID This is the publicly-broadcast “name” of your wireless
network. SSIDs can contain up to 32 alphanumeric
characters and are case-sensitive. The maximum SSID
length can only contain between 2 and 32 characters,
including characters from ! (char 33) to ~ (char 126).
Threshold Settings This button opens a page where you can configure the
Protection Mode you activated on the Configuration >
Wireless > Advanced > Wireless [#] page. If Protection
Mode is not active, ignore this option.
For more information, see “
Setting Threshold Options” on
page 87.
Rate Limiting This button opens a page where you can configure upload
and download limits per station. For more information, see
“
Rate Limiting” on page 88.
Access Control This button opens a page where you can configure access
controls for the WLAN. For more information, see
“
Controlling Access to the Wireless Network” on page 89.
Packet Forwarding Isolated: Selecting Isolated causes the traffic from this
WLAN to terminate at the Access Point.
Bridge to WAN: The default setting, Bridge to WAN
forwards packets arriving on this WLAN to the WAN (uplink)
port and eventually to their external destinations using
Layer 2 forwarding.
Local Subnet NAT and Route to WAN: This setting allows
routing of wireless packets to their destinations using Layer
3 network address translation (NAT).
Bridge to L2TP Tunnel: Uses Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol
to deliver packets encapsulated with an L2TP header in
UDP datagrams.
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