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Firebox X Edge Wireless Setup
84 WatchGuard Firebox X Edge
Configuring advanced settings
You can configure how the Firebox X Edge Wireless transmits data
to your wireless computer.
Wireless computers send requests to see if there are wireless access
points to which they can connect. To configure the Firebox X Edge
Wireless to send and answer to these requests, select the Broadcast
SSID and respond to SSID queries check box. For security, turn this
option on only when you are configuring your network to connect
to the Firebox X Edge. Then, disable this option after all your clients
have been configured.
To control access to the Firebox X Edge Wireless by computer hard-
ware (MAC) address:
1 Select the Restrict Access by Hardware Address check box.
2 Click Edit.
3 Type the MAC addresses of the computers that are allowed to
connect to the Firebox X Edge Wireless in the correct field.
To find the MAC address of your wireless card, open a command prompt
on your computer and type “ipconfig /all”.
4 Click Add and then Submit.
Logging authentication events
An authentication event occurs when a wireless computer tries to
connect to the Firebox X Edge Wireless. To have the Firebox X Edge
Wireless record authentication events in the log file, select the Log
Authentication Events check box.
To change the fragmentation threshold, type a value in the Frag-
mentation Threshold field. The values are 256 through 2346.
Configuring the wireless mode
Most wireless cards can operate only in 802.11b (11 MB/second) or
802.11g (54 MB/second) mode. The Firebox X Edge only operates in
802.11g mode if all the wireless cards connected to the Edge are
using 802.11g mode. If any 802.11b clients connect to the Edge, all
clients drop down to the 802.11b mode. To set the operating mode
for the Firebox X Edge, select an option from the Wireless Mode
drop-down list. There are three wireless modes from which to select:
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