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8-10 Advanced Network Configurations
In case of manually assigning an IP address, use the field Access Point
IP Address
to enter a value from the range of IP addresses assigned to your organization.
The IP address is primarily used to address this Access Point when you use the
AP Manager program to configure and/or monitor this device.
When your organization does not use IP addressing, you can enter a user-defined
value. For example a value of the same pattern as the factory-set IP address
153.69.254.254, where you replace the last three digits with a numerical value in
the range of “1” to “253”.
Automatically assign an IP address
In case when a DHCP server is available on the network, an IP address will be
automatically assigned to the Access Point by the DHCP server. To enable
automatically obtaining an IP address form the DHCP server, select the field
Obtain an IP address from DHCP server
on the Access Point
IP
tab.
For more information about DHCP refer to “BOOTP and DHCP” on page 8-20.
Subnet Mask
The field Access Point
Subnet Mask
is a common parameter and must be the same
for ALL network devices within your IP subnet.
You can use either the default value (255.255.0.0) or change the subnet mask to
a value that applies in your network.
If
Obtain an IP address from DHCP server
is enabled, the subnet is also automatically
entered.
Default Router
The field
Default Router IP
is an optional field that is relevant when you intend to
use the Access Point support for TRAP messages (see also “SNMP Parameters”
on page 8-11).
You can use the Default Router IP field to identify the IP address of the router
which the Access Point will use to find the Trap Host IP Address (identified in
the SNMP Parameters).
The default router and the trap host IP address described later in this chapter are
only used for TRAP messages generated by the Access Point upon a reset,
modification of the configuration, or forced reload procedure.
If the value of the field
Default Router IP
is set to 0.0.0.0 (default), then no TRAP
messages are initiated by this Access Point.
The Default Router is also relevant if you want to manage (or just ping) the
Access Point from an other subnet.
Time To Live (TTL)
The field
Default TTL
(Time To Live) identifies the maximum number of hops for
an IP message generated by the Access Point (typically used for the trap host
messages).