Compaq WL110, User Manual

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Setting Up your LAN Administrator Station 3-1
chapter 3
Setting Up your LAN Administrator
Station
Introduction
11Mbps Wireless LAN infrastructures are managed from the LAN administrator
station. Within this chapter decision points are described which are necessary to
help you set up LAN administrator station(s) to properly manage your network.
Typically, the LAN administrator station is a computer used by the LAN
administrator to configure, manage and monitor the network. You can assign as
many LAN administrator stations as you like, depending on how you would like
to manage your network.
The LAN administrator station uses the tools available in the 11Mbps Wireless
LAN software suite to configure and monitor your network. The following
programs are included within the 11Mbps Wireless LAN software suite:
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Client Manager
■
AP Manager
In this chapter, we describe how to set up the LAN administrator station in the
following network configurations:
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Peer-to-Peer workgroup - all stations within the network directly
communicate with all other stations. No Access Points are necessary to
bridge the data.
■
Infrastructure network - all stations communicate to each other and the
Ethernet backbone via Access Point interfaces.
For an overview of the 11Mbps Wireless LAN software tools, please refer to
“About Compaq 11Mbps Wireless LAN Tools” on pag e1-1.
Assigning an LAN Administrator Station
Minimum Requirements
To set up the LAN administrator station, you can use any desktop or portable
computer that meets the following requirements:
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A 80486 or faster processor.
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Free disk space of 4 MB.