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D-Link Unified Access Point Administrator’s Guide
1. Open a command window on your PC.
(For example, from the system tray on the desktop choose
Start > Run
to bring up the
Run dialog, and type
cmd
in the Open property, then click OK.)
2. At the command prompt, type the following:
telnet
<ip_address>
where
<ip_address>
is the address of the access point you want to monitor.
(If your Domain Name Server is configured to map domain names to IP addresses via
DHCP, you can also telnet to the domain name of the AP.)
3. When the login prompt appears, enter the username and password.
The login name is admin, and the default password is admin.
After a successful login, the screen shows the (Access Point Name)# prompt. You are now
ready to enter CLI commands at the command line prompt.
SSH Connection to the AP
If you already deployed your network and know the IP address of your access point, you can
use a remote Secure Shell (SSH) connection to the access point to view the system console
over the network.
Using an SSH connection to the access point is similar to “Telnet” in that it gives you remote
access to the system console and CLI. SSH has the added advantage of being a secure
connection traffic encrypted.
To use an SSH connection, you need to have SSH software installed on your PC. The
examples in this guide use PuTTY, which is available as a free download from the Internet.
