9. Wireless Features

While the 6tcw does perform as advertised in providing IPsec-secured wireless communication, as you can see from Figure 9, it doesn't have many other unique WLAN capabilities.

Figure 9: Wireless Configuration
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Specifically absent is the "Guest Services" feature provided in the Sonicwall TZW that captures all wireless traffic from unauthenticated clients and requires log in via a web browser. It also doesn't block client-to-client wireless communication.

In keeping with its VPN-centric view of wireless security - and like the Sonicwall - the 6tcw supports neither 802.1x-based authentication nor WPA enhanced security. You can enable 64 or 128 bit WEP encryption, though.

You can also enable MAC address association control but you can't load or save the Filter list and it doesn't present a pick-list of associated or in-range clients to ease the job of adding clients to the list. And last, but not least, you can shut off the AP entirely (on the Optional Network configuration page).