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3Com OfficeConnect WX1200 manual

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  • Page 1

    Part No. 730- 9502-0048, Re vision B Published Nove mber 2004 W IR ELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE This document descr ibes how to do the following: ■ Use the quickstart command to per form basic system configuration of a Wireless LAN switch (WX) running Mobility System Software V e rsion 3.0. ■ Configure a Mobility Doma[...]

  • Page 2

    2 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE ■ EAP (802.1X) key p air an d self-signed certificate (generated if you type usernames and passwords for users of encrypt ed SSIDs) ■ Web AAA key pair and self-signed certificate (gen- erated if you type user names an d passwords for users of unencrypt ed SSIDs) The command automatic[...]

  • Page 3

    Preparing Clients 3 3COMWX. mynetwork .com, where the DNS suffix for mynetwork .com is learned through DHCP . The WX relays information ab out WX switches in the network that contain a Distributed MAP configura- tion specific to that Distributed MAP . Prepar ing Clients MSS uses 802.1X for access to secure (encrypted) SSIDs. For a client to a ccess[...]

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    4 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE 18 Click OK to close the Network Connection dialo g box. Using the quickstart Command This example configures the f ollowing parameters: ■ System name: WX1200-Corp ■ Country code (regulator y domain): US ■ System IP addres s: 10.10.10.4, o n IP interfac e 10.10.10. 4 255.255.255.0 [...]

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    Using the quickstart Command 5 Figure 1 Single-Switch Deploymen t T o run the quickstart command: 1 Attach a PC to the WX switch’ s serial console port. (Use these modem settings: 9600 bps, 8 b its, 1 stop, no parity , hard ware flow contro l disabled.) 2 Press Enter thr ee times, to display a user name prompt (Userna me:), a password prompt (Pas[...]

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    6 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE Another questio n the script asks is, “Do you wish to configur e wireless?” If you answer y , the script goes on to ask you for SSID an d user inform ation, for unencrypted and encrypted SSIDs. If you answer n , the script generates key pair s for SSH and th e admin- istrative users [...]

  • Page 7

    Using the quickstart Command 7 success: created keypair for admin success: created self-signed certificate for admin success: created keypair for eap success: created self-signed certificate for eap success: created keypair for webaaa success: created self-signed certificate for webaaa success: remember to save this config WX1200# save config 6 Opt[...]

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    8 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE Configuring a Mobility Domain for Roaming This pr ocedure configures multiple WX switches to form a Mobility Domain. A Mobility Domain allows users to seamlessly roam fr om one WX switch to another . A Mobility Doma in uses one seed switch. The other switches are members. Add the switche[...]

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    Opening the QuickStart Network Plan in 3WXM 9 WX1200-Corp# save config Configuring a Member 1 Use the quickstart command to con figure basic system parameters on a second switc h (WX1200-Corp2) . 2 Configur e WX1200-Corp2 as a member of the Mobil- ity Domain. WX1200-Corp2# set mobility-domain mode member seed-ip 10.10.10.4 3 V erify and save th e c[...]

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    10 W IRELESS LAN S WITCH AND C ONTR OLLER Q UICK S TART G UIDE[...]