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User’s Guide

IEEE 802.11b

WLAN Bridge Access Point

Version 2.0

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Summary of Contents for WE711-APB

Page 1: ...User s Guide IEEE 802 11b WLAN Bridge Access Point Version 2 0 ...

Page 2: ...3 Installation 7 3 1 Installing the SNMP Manager application 8 3 2 Setting the IP Address 12 3 3 Using the SNMP Manager 14 4 Technical Specifications 40 Troubleshooting 41 Glossary 42 Product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and or registered trademarks of their respective companies ...

Page 3: ... accordance with the instruction may cause harmful interference to radio communication However there is no grantee that interference will not occur in a particular installation If this equipment dose cause harmful interference to radio or television reception which can be determined by turning the equipment off and on the user is encouraged to try to correct the interference by one or more of the ...

Page 4: ...evice complies with Part 15 of FCC Rules Operation is subject to the following two conditions 1 This device may not cause harmful interference 2 This device must accept any interference that may cause undesired operation Europe R TTE Directive This device complies with the specifications listed below ETS 301 489 1 17 General EMC requirements for Radio equipment ETS 300 328 Technical requirements f...

Page 5: ...le maintaining seamless uninterrupted access to the network This document describes the steps required for the initial IP address assign and AP configuration The description includes the implementation of the above steps 1 1 Installation Requirements Before you begin installation make sure that you have the following items The Access Point The AC to DC power adapter The Documentation CD You will a...

Page 6: ...ireless network The most obvious differentiation between Infrastructure wireless network and Ad Hoc wireless network is that the notebooks in Infrastructure wireless network can make use of the resource in the Internet through Access Point STA 3 STA 1 STA 2 Access Point Internet Figure 2 2 Infrastructure wireless network To set up your notebook s network as the type of Ad Hoc or Infrastructure wir...

Page 7: ...s There are two methods of assigning network addresses to computer on a TCP IP network Static IP addressing Dynamic IP addressing DHCP In networks with static IP addressing the network administrator manually assigns an IP address to each computer Once a static IP address is assigned a computer uses the same IP address every time it reboots and logs on to the network You may manually change the IP ...

Page 8: ...t the given documentation CD and then double click the MY Computer icon on your desktop In my computer window double click the CD Drive icon Choose WLAN Access Point folder and double click Setup exe to execute It opens the welcome dialog box as shown next page then click Next ...

Page 9: ...9 Step 2 Software License Agreement click Yes to accept Step 3 Click Next to install to this folder ...

Page 10: ...t the type of setup you prefer then click Next Step 5 Setup will add program icons to the Program Folder listed below You may type a new folder name or select one from the Existing Folders list Click Next to continue ...

Page 11: ...11 Step 6 Starting Set up Step 7 Click Finish to complete Setup ...

Page 12: ...st way to accomplish is to connect the Access Point and the Ethernet station to the same hub You need to check if the station IP address and the Sub net mask are configured properly Also the new IP address for the Access Point must correspond to the Subnet mask Step 2 In my computer window double click the CD Drive icon Choose WLAN Access Point folder then double click to execute IPConfig exe Then...

Page 13: ...S Prompt window and type ping followed by the IP address used in the IP Config The IP address is assigned to the Access Point The Access Point s replies to the ping confirm that the IP address was assigned correctly Step 4 If you get a ping reply then the IP address has been temporarily set In order to set it permanently you need to run SNMP Manager without powering off the Access Point ...

Page 14: ...14 3 3 Using the SNMP Manager On the Start Menu choose Start Programs SNMP Manager ...

Page 15: ...the appropriate password The default password is public Additionally you have to select the User or Administrator Authority in the Authority combo box User Authority allow you only to view and not to set or save changes to the Access Point Configuration while Administrator Authority allow you to either view or set changes to the Access Point Configuration Then press OK If your network has a DHCP s...

Page 16: ...e Access Points available for connection Select one of the available Access Points and press Connect then appears indicating the IP Address of the selected Access Point and prompting you to select Authority and to write the appropriate password at the community field Then press OK In case of a successful connection to the Access Point the following window appears press OK ...

Page 17: ... Close Connection AP Terminates the connection with the Access Point You can find and associate with another access point by selecting the Find Access Point after close the connection Download changes When all the desired values of the parameters have been set you are able to download the changes save the changes to the Access Point by selecting this submenu Refresh After changing the access point...

Page 18: ...18 Options Defines the polling interval according to which the SNMP Manager polls the Access Point in order to update the statistics and the Associated Stations List ...

Page 19: ...eld displays IP Address that was dynamically assigned to the AP by the network DHCP server and the IP Mask field displays IP Mask utilized by the network DHCP server Additional you have to select the Primary Port which is the interface that determines the DHCP server If changes are made you need to Download Changes under the File menu in order to save them Bridge IP Configuration Parameters MAC Ad...

Page 20: ...20 Filtering If the IP Routing is enabled only the IP protocol packets will pass through the WLAN and any other protocol filtered out ...

Page 21: ...ryption for transmissions between the stations and the Access Point WEP is an authentication algorithm which protects authorized Wireless LAN users against eavesdropping For the 64 bit encryption each key is required to enter 5 Hex digits For example 11 22 33 44 55 66 The 128 bit encryption requires each key to enter 13 Hex digits For example 12 34 56 78 9A BC DE F0 11 22 33 44 55 Note The Authent...

Page 22: ...22 There are four 13 Hex digit encryption keys available if you select 128 bit WEP Or you can select Disable ...

Page 23: ...tions and Access Point in the extended WLAN Select the ESSID to be used Channel There are 14 channels available The channels differ from country to country Select the channel to be used Fragmentation threshold The size at which packets will be fragmented Choose a setting within a range of 256 to 2346 bytes RTS Threshold Minimum packet size to require an RTS Request To Send For packets smaller than...

Page 24: ...ield of PPDU which is the appropriate frame format for transmission to PHY Physical layer There are two options Short Preamble and Long Preamble The Short Preamble option improves throughput performance Rata By default the unit adoptively selects the highest possible rate for transmission Select the basic rates to be used among the following options 1 2 5 5 11 Mbps Auto Rate Fall Back When this is...

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Page 26: ...t This mode provides two way access between wireless stations and wired LANs Wireless stations within the range of the Access Point device may communicate with each other via the Access Point Figure 3 1 Access Point ...

Page 27: ...his way any station of the Remote LAN can successfully communicate with any station of the central LAN as if all of them belonged to the same physical LAN Wireless Stations cannot communicate directly with Access Point Clients The Access Point conducts the designated traffic to the appropriate wired or wireless station Figure 3 2 Access Point Client ...

Page 28: ...connections a Point to point The Wireless Bridge can communicate with a specific Remote MAC Address The user must define the Remote MAC Address which is the MAC Address of the Wireless Bridge of the Remote LAN Figure 3 3 Wireless Bridge Point to Point ...

Page 29: ...nabled the Wireless Bridge can communicate with any Wireless Bridge whose MAC Addresses exists in the Authorization Table Figure 3 4 Wireless Bridge Point to Multipoint For each mode you can either view or modify the Wireless LAN parameters of the Wireless Operational Settings windows In the Operational Mode Window there are the following parameters ...

Page 30: ...f you select the Access Point Client option BSS corresponds to the MAC Address of the desired AP Remote MAC address It is enabled only if you select Point to Point It corresponds to the MAC Address of the Wireless Bridge of the Remote LAN ...

Page 31: ...under the Authorized MAC Address option you may press the following buttons The Load file button in order to load a file with the MAC addresses that can be associated with the Access Point Authorized MAC Addresses The Download button in order to download the Authorized MAC Address to the Access Point The Get button in order to get from the Access Point the Authorized MAC Addresses ...

Page 32: ...the reception of an association request packet and the sender Station s successful association with the Wireless Bridge Trap Disassociation This trap message is sent when a disassociation notification packet is received from a Station Trap Reset This trap message is sent when the AP Bridge resets Trap Setting IP Address with Ping This trap message is sent when the AP Bridge IP address is set with ...

Page 33: ...33 Authorization Using this submenu the Administrator can change the passwords which referred to the community field for the User and the Administrator Authority ...

Page 34: ...e are two submenus Reset Device you can reset the Access Point This action takes place after a user makes configuration changes in order to initiate the changes Restore Default You can restore the factory default values of the Access Point ...

Page 35: ...tics is given in the following Unicast Transmitted Packets The number of unicast packets successfully transmitted Broadcast transmitted packets The number of broadcast packets transmitted Multicast transmitted packets The number of multicast packets transmitted Unicast Received Packets The number of unicast packets that were successfully received Broadcast Received The number of broadcast packets ...

Page 36: ... following Received Packets Total Bytes The number of bytes in the frames that were received Total Packs Total number of received packets Packet CRC Errors The number of packets with CRC Errors Transmitted Packets Total Bytes The number of bytes in the frames that were transmitted Total Packs Total number of received transmitted Packet CRC Errors The number of packets with CRC Errors ...

Page 37: ...37 Traps menu Provides information for trap messages View Record You can see additional information for every Trap Message ...

Page 38: ...bmenu Associated stations Using this submenu you can view the MAC Addresses of the Associated stations with the Access Point Window menu Under this menu there are the following submenus Cascade All opened windows are arranged on the desktop in a cascade fashion Tile All open windows are visible on the desktop ...

Page 39: ...39 Help menu Provides on line help about the application ...

Page 40: ...472 GHz Europe 2 457 2 462 GHz Spain 2 457 2 472 GHz France Modulation 1 Mbps DBPSK 2 Mbps DQPSK 5 5 Mbps CCK 11 Mbps CCK Ethernet Interface 10 100Base T RJ 45 Power AC 100 240V 50 60 Hz to 5VDC 1A converter incl Mobility Seamless roaming across cell boundaries Security IEEE standard WEP 40 bit Environmental 0 C to 55 C operating 95 humidity Network Management SNMP agent with support for MIB II an...

Page 41: ...y with a default IP address 192 168 0 1 If this address does not belong to the SubNetwork of the configuring terminal then you would execute IPConfig exe from attached CD to modify it The MAC address could be found on the button side Symptom After configuration is done but there is no any client associating with AP Possible Remedy 1 Make sure there is any properly operating client in the serving a...

Page 42: ...mic IP Addressing and requires a dedicated DHCP server on the network Direct Sequence Spread Spectrum This is the method the wireless cards use to transmit data over the frequency spectrum The other method is frequency hopping Direct sequence spreads the data over one frequency range channel while frequency hopping jumps from one narrow frequency band to another many times per second ESSID An Infr...

Page 43: ... particular is being made available worldwide This presents a truly revolutionary opportunity to place convenient high speed wireless capabilities in the hands of users around the globe Local Area Network LAN A LAN is a group of computers each equipped with the appropriate network adapter card connected by cable air that share applications data and peripherals All connections are made via cable or...

Page 44: ...n as a management information block Static IP Addressing A method of assigning IP addresses to clients on the network In networks with Static IP address the network administrator manually assigns an IP address to each computer Once a Static IP address is assigned a computer uses the same IP address every time it reboots and logs on to the network unless it is manually changed Transmission Control ...

Page 45: ...quency RF and infrared are the commonly used types of wireless transmission Most wireless LANs use spread spectrum technology It offers limited bandwidth usually under 11Mbps and users share the bandwidth with other devices in the spectrum however users can operate a spread spectrum device without licensing from the Federal Communications Commission FCC ...

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