LANCOM L- 54ag Wireless – LANCOM L- 54g Wireless – LANCOM IAP- 54 Wireless
Chapter 3: Basic configuration
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IP address and netmask for the LANCOM 54 Wireless
Assign a free IP address from the address range of your LAN to the
LANCOM 54 Wireless and specify the netmask.
Enable DHCP server?
Disable the DHCP server function in the LANCOM 54 Wireless if you would
like to have a different DHCP server assign the IP addresses in your LAN.
3.1.2
Configuration protection
The password for configuration access to the LANCOM 54 Wireless protects
the configuration against unauthorized access. The configuration of the router
contains a considerable amount of sensitive information such as your Internet
access information. We therefore strongly recommend protecting it with a
password.
3.1.3
Settings for the Wireless LAN
The network name (SSID)
The basic configuration wizard asks for the network name of the base station
(often designated as SSID –
S
ervice
S
et
Id
entifier). The network name will be
registered in the base stations of the Wireless LAN. You can choose any name.
Several base stations with the same network name form a common Wireless
LAN.
Open or closed Wireless LAN?
Mobile radio stations dial-in the wanted Wireless LAN by declaration of the
network name. The specification of the network name is facilitated by two
technologies:
Mobile radio stations can search for Wireless LANs in the environs
(„scan“) and offer for selection the found Wireless LANs in a list.
By using the network name 'ANY', the mobile radio station will enrol in
the next available Wireless LAN.
The Wireless LAN can be „closed“ to prevent this procedure. In this case, no
enrolment with the network name 'ANY' will be accepted.
For standard, LANCOM base stations are responsive under the net-
work name 'LANCOM'. The wireless basic configuration of a base sta-
tion takes therefore place via this network name. If another network
name is set during the basic configuration, also the Wireless LAN
