AW5300 Wireless Access Point
Chapter 2 Getting Started
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the device A has to put the MAC address of the device B and vice versa. With this setting, the WDS
connection is more secure but is limited up to four fixed coupling of AW5300 devices per configuration.
In WDS dynamic mode, the device allows any AW5300 devices to connect to it as long as they can
provide accurate security WDS key. The device supports up to four concurrent couplings at a time. The
WDS connection will be disconnected after 10 seconds of idle connection. By setting AW5300 to wireless
WDS Hybrid AP gateway mode and enabling dynamic WDS, the device can connect to more than multiple
networks, providing more flexibility than AP client technology which limits only one network connection.
One example of dynamic WDS systems is mobile equipment stations which have a set of instruments
connecting in a cart or a vehicle. These stations can provide services for different services on demand.
With this topology, we can set the mobile equipment station, AW5300_3, to use dynamic WDS. Meanwhile,
the service sites, AW5300_1 and AW5300_2, use static WDS by input the MAC address of AW5300_3.
Figure 2-9 Sample Topology of AW5300 using dynamic WDS connection
2.4. Factory Default Settings
The AW5300 has two network interfaces, Ethernet and wireless network interfaces. The default settings of
both interfaces and the username and password for first-time-installation are shown below.
Default IP addresses
Interface
Device IP
Subnet Mask
Ethernet port
10.0.50.200 255.0.0.0
WLAN Port
192.168.0.1 255.255.255.0
Username
admin
Password
(Blank)
Other default settings are shown in the following table.
Note Parameters
marked
with
†
are available only in Wireless Bridge, Wireless WDS Hybrid AP
and Wireless WDS Hybrid AP Gateway modes.
