ZyXEL Communications NWD-270N Network Card User Manual


 
Chapter 3 ZyXEL Utility - Mac OS X
NWD-270N User’s Guide
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3.10.2 The Profile Details Screen
While in the WPS screen, you can view information about any profile in the WPS Profile
List. Click the Profile Details button. The following screen displays.
Figure 20 ZyXEL Utility: WPS - Profile Details
The following table describes the labels in this screen.
Table 13 Mac OS X: WPS - Profile Details
LABEL DESCRIPTION
SSID This field indicates the automatically generated SSID used for your current WPS
session. You can also edit it. Enter up to 32 standard English alphanumeric
characters. Spaces, underscores and punctuation marks are allowed.
BSSID This field indicates your WPS profile’s BSSID.
Authentication
Type
Select an authentication type to use for creating secure connections, or use the
default as selected by the NWD-270N.
Encryption Type Select an encryption type to use for creating secure connections, or use the
default as selected by the NWD-270N.
Key Length This field indicates the length of the encryption key to use for creating secure
connections. For WPS connections it is always 64-bit.
Key Index This field indicates key index value to use for creating secure connections. For
WPS connections it is always 1.
Key Material This is the random string of letters and numbers used as the encryption key seed.
An encryption key seed helps your NWD-270N generate mathmatically random
numbers than cannot be second guessed easily by would be malefactors
OK Click this button to save your settings and return to the previous screen.
CANCEL Click this button to close this dialoge without saving and return to the previous
screen.