Motorola SURFboard SVG2500 Quick Installation Manual page 24

24 SVG2500 SURFBOARD WIRELESS VOICE GATEWAY
Security for Wireless LANs
For a LAN with one or more wireless clients, enable wireless
security. Because wireless data is transmitted using radio
signals, unauthorized people can eavesdrop unless you enable
wireless security. The SVG2500 supports several wireless
security measures. The ones that make sense for you depend
on your needs and networking equipment.
To prevent unauthorized eavesdropping, you must encrypt
wireless data transmissions using one of:
•
If all of your wireless clients support Wi-Fi Protected
Access (WPA), Motorola recommends configuring WPA on
your SVG2500 and wireless clients. You can use the same
WPA Passphrase on the SVG2500 and any wireless
adapter that supports WPA.
•
Otherwise, configure a Wired Equivalency Privacy (WEP)
key on the SVG2500 and each wireless client. You can use
the same WEP key on the SVG2500 and any 802.11b/g
wireless adapter.
To further protect from unauthorized intrusions, you can:
•
Configure a MAC access control list to restrict wireless
local-area network (WLAN) access to known MAC
addresses.