D-Link DWL-6600AP manual

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 March 2012[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 2 March 2012 T able of Contents Section 1 - About This Document ............................................................................................9 Document Organization ........................................................................[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 3 March 2012 Controlling Access by MAC Authentication ......................................................................................................... 59 Conguring a MAC Filter and Station List on the AP ....................................[...]

  • Page 4

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 4 March 2012 Viewing the Last Proposed Set of Changes ................................................................................................ 109 Conguring Advanced Settings ..................................................................[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 5 March 2012 List of Figures Figure 1 - Administrator UI Online Help ................................................................................................................... 10 Figure 2 - Web UI Login Prompt .................................[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 6 March 2012 Figure 60 - Congure Client QoS DiffServ Class Map Settings .............................................................................. 96 Figure 61 - Congure Client QoS DiffServ Policy Map Settings ................................[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 7 March 2012 List of T ables T able 1 - T ypographical Conventions ...................................................................................................................... 10 T able 2 - Requirements for the Administrator ’s Computer ...[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 8 March 2012 T able 60 - Session Management ............................................................................................ ............................... 107 T able 61 - Channel Assignments ...............................................[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 9 March 2012 Section 1 - About This Document Section 1 - About This Document This guide describes setup, conguration, administration and maintenance for the D-Link DWL-x600AP Unied Access Point (UAP) on a wireless network. Document Organization T[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 10 March 2012 Section 1 - About This Document Symbol Example Description Curly Braces {} {Choice1 | Choice2} Indicates that you must select a parameter from the list of choices. V ertical Bars | Choice1 | Choice2 Separates the mutually exclusive choice[...]

  • Page 11

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 1 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Section 2 - Getting Started The D-Link DWL-x600AP unied access point (UAP) provides continuous, high-speed access between wireless devices and Ethernet devices. It is an advanced, standards-based solution f[...]

  • Page 12

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 12 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Required Software or Component Description Wireless Connection to the Network After initial conguration and launch of the rst access point on your new wireless network, you can make subsequent congurat[...]

  • Page 13

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 13 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Dynamic and Static IP Addressing on the AP When you power on the access point, the built-in DHCP client searches for a DHCP server on the network in order to obtain an IP Address and other network information. [...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 14 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started •) T o use a direct-cable connection, connect one end of an Ethernet straight-through or crossover cable to the network port on the access point and the other end of the cable to the Ethernet port on the PC, [...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 15 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Figure 3 - Provide Basic Settings 5.) V erify the settings on the Basic Settings page. •) Review access point description and provide a new administrator password for the access point if you do not want to us[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 16 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Basic Settings From the Basic Settings page, you can view various information about the UAP , including IP and MAC address information, and congure the administrator password for the UAP . The following tabl[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 17 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Field Description System Contact Enter the name, e-mail address, or phone number of the person to contact regarding issues related to the AP . System Location Enter the physical location of the AP , for example[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 18 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Figure 4 - Command Line Interface (CLI) Connection Conguring the Ethernet Settings The default Ethernet settings, which include DHCP and VLAN information, might not work for all networks. By default, the DHC[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 19 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Action Commands Use DHCP as the connection type set management dhcp-status up Use a Static IP as the connection type set management dhcp-status down Set the Static IP address set management static-ip <ip_add[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 20 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Using the CLI to Congure 802.1X Authentication Information The following table shows the commands used to congure the 802.1X supplicant information using the CLI. Action Command View 802.1X supplicant set[...]

  • Page 21

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 21 March 2012 Section 2 - Getting Started Conguring Security on the Wireless Access Point Y ou congure secure wireless client access by conguring security for each virtual access point (V AP) that you enable. Y ou can congure up to 16 V APs[...]

  • Page 22

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 22 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Section 3 - V iewing Access Point Status This section describes the information you can view from the tabs under the Status heading on the Administration Web UI. This section contains the following [...]

  • Page 23

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 23 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Modify Wireless Settings page. For information about conguring these settings, see “Wireless Settings” on page 37 and “Modifying Radio Settings” on page 40. V iewing Events The Events pag[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 24 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Field Description Persistence Choose Enabled to save system logs to non-volatile memory so that the logs are not erased when the AP reboots. Choose Disabled to save system logs to volatile memory . [...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 25 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Note: T o apply your changes, click Apply . Changing some settings might cause the AP to stop and restart system processes. If this happens, wireless clients will temporarily lose connectivity . We [...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 26 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Field Description T otal Drop Packets Indicates total number of packets sent (in T ransmit table) or received (in Received table) by this AP that were dropped. T otal Drop Bytes Indicates total numb[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 27 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status A TSPEC is a trafc specication that is sent from a QoS-capable wireless client to an AP requesting a certain amount of network access for the trafc stream (TS) it represents. A trafc str[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 28 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Field Description From Station Shows the number of packets and bytes received from the wireless client and the number of packets and bytes that were dropped after being received. Also shows the numb[...]

  • Page 29

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 29 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Field Description AP Detection for Radio T o allow the AP radios to perform neighbor AP detection and collect information about neighbor APs, click Enabled . T o disable neighbor AP detection on the[...]

  • Page 30

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 30 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Field Description Known AP List Action An AP can appear in the Known AP List if it has been moved from the Detected Rogue AP List by clicking the Grant button or if the MAC address of the AP appears[...]

  • Page 31

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 31 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status appear in the Known AP List. V iewing Managed AP DHCP Information The UAP can learn about D-Link Unied Wireless Switches on the network through DHCP responses to its initial DHCP request. The Man[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 32 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Field Description AP and V AP Status Interface Indicates the name of the Radio or V AP interface. Access Category Indicates Current Access Category associated with this T rafc Stream (voice or vi[...]

  • Page 33

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 33 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Field Description TSPEC Statistics Summary for V oice ACM Indicates the total number of accepted and the total number of rejected voice T rafc Streams. TSPEC Statistics Summary for Video ACM Indi[...]

  • Page 34

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 34 March 2012 Section 3 - Viewing Access Point Status Field Description Multicast Frames T ransmitted Count of successfully transmitted MSDU frames where the multicast bit is set in the destination MAC address. Duplicate Frame Count Number of times a f[...]

  • Page 35

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 35 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Section 4 - Managing the Access Point This section describes how to manage the UAP and contains the following subsections: •) “Ethernet Settings” on page 35 •) “Wireless Settings” on page [...]

  • Page 36

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 36 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Hostname Enter a hostname for the AP . The hostname appears in the CLI prompt. •) The hostname has the following requirements: •) The length must be between 1 – 63 characters. [...]

  • Page 37

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 37 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Wireless Settings Wireless settings describe aspects of the local area network (LAN) related specically to the radio device in the access point (802.1 1 Mode and Channel) and to the network interfa[...]

  • Page 38

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 38 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Mode The Mode denes the Physical Layer (PHY) standard the radio uses. Note: The modes available depend on the country code setting and the radio selected. Select one of the follow[...]

  • Page 39

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 39 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description AeroScout™ Engine Protocol Support AeroScout Engine support provides location-based services for wireless networks. Specify whether to enable support for the AeroScout protocol. Op[...]

  • Page 40

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 40 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point information. The DWS-4000 Series switch does not communicate with the AE. AeroScout tags operate only in 802.1 1b/g mode. Therefore, network administrators who use the AeroScout tags must congure a[...]

  • Page 41

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 41 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Mode The Mode denes the Physical Layer (PHY) standard the radio uses. Note: The modes available depend on the country code setting and the radio selected. Select one of the follow[...]

  • Page 42

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 42 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Short Guard Interval Supported This eld is available only if the selected radio mode includes 802.1 1n. The guard interval is the dead time, in nanoseconds, between OFDM symbols. [...]

  • Page 43

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 43 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description RTS Threshold Specify a Request to Send (RTS) Threshold value between 0 and 2347. The RTS threshold indicates the number of octets in an MPDU, below which an R TS/CTS handshake is no[...]

  • Page 44

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 44 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description TSPEC V oice ACM Limit Specify an upper limit on the amount of trafc the AP attempts to transmit on the wireless medium using a voice AC to gain access. TSPEC Video ACM Mode Regul[...]

  • Page 45

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 45 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Figure 19 - Scheduler Conguration Field Description Global Scheduler Mode A global switch to enable or disable the scheduler feature. The default is Disable . Scheduler Operational Status Status Th[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 46 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Figure 20 - Scheduler Conguration (Modify Rule) Click Apply to save the new conguration settings. Note: After making any modications, you must click Apply to apply the changes and to save the[...]

  • Page 47

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 47 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Radio Scheduler Prole Operational Status 1 or 2 From the menu, select the Scheduler prole to associate with Radio 1 or Radio 2. Scheduler Prole From the menu, select the Sch[...]

  • Page 48

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 48 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Figure 22 - Modify Virtual Access Point Settings The following table describes the elds and conguration options on the VA P page. Field Description RADIUS IP Address T ype Specify the IP version[...]

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    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 49 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Radio Select the radio to congure. V APs are congured independently on each radio. VA P Y ou can congure up to 16 V APs for each radio. V AP0 is the physical radio interface[...]

  • Page 50

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 50 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Redirect Mode Enable the HTTP redirect feature to redirect wireless clients to a custom W eb page. When redirect mode is enabled, the user will be redirected to the URL you specify a[...]

  • Page 51

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 51 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Key T ype Select the key type by clicking one of the radio buttons: •) ASCII •) Hex WEP Keys Y ou can specify up to four WEP keys. In each text box, enter a string of characters [...]

  • Page 52

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 52 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point called EAP Encapsulation Over LANs (EAPOL). IEEE 802.1X provides dynamically-generated keys that are periodically refreshed. An RC4 stream cipher is used to encrypt the frame body and cyclic redundanc[...]

  • Page 53

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 53 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Enable RADIUS Accounting Select this option to track and measure the resources a particular user has consumed such as system time, amount of data transmitted and received, and so on.[...]

  • Page 54

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 54 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Cipher Suites Select the cipher suite you want to use: •) TKIP •) CCMP (AES) •) TKIP and CCMP (AES) Both TKIP and AES clients can associate with the AP . WP A clients must have[...]

  • Page 55

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 55 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Enable pre- authentication If for WP A V ersions you select only WP A2 or both WP A and WP A2, you can enable pre- authentication for WP A2 clients. Click Enable pre-authentication i[...]

  • Page 56

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 56 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Session Key Refresh Rate Enter a value to set the interval at which the AP will refresh session (unicast) keys for each client associated to the V AP . The valid range is 0–86400 s[...]

  • Page 57

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 57 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Figure 27 - Congure WDS Bridges Before you congure WDS on the AP , note the following guidelines: •) When using WDS, be sure to congure WDS settings on both APs participating in the WDS lin[...]

  • Page 58

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 58 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point If you select None as your preferred WDS encryption option, you will not be asked to ll in any more elds on the WDS page. All data transferred between the two APs on the WDS link will be unencry[...]

  • Page 59

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 59 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Controlling Access by MAC Authentication A Media Access Control (MAC) address is a hardware address that uniquely identies each node of a network. All IEEE 802 network devices share a common 48-bit[...]

  • Page 60

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 60 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Filter T o set the MAC Address Filter , select one of the following options: •) Allow only stations in the list . Any station that is not in the Stations List is denied access to t[...]

  • Page 61

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 61 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Field Description Load Balancing Enable or disable load balancing: T o enable load balancing on this AP , click Enable . T o disable load balancing on this AP , click Disable . Utilization for No New [...]

  • Page 62

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 62 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Conguring Managed Access Point Settings T o add the IP address of a D-Link Unied Wireless Switch to the AP , click the Managed Access Point tab under the Manage heading and update the elds sh[...]

  • Page 63

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 63 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Conguring 802.1X Authentication On networks that use IEEE 802.1X, port-based network access control, a supplicant (client) cannot gain access to the network until the 802.1X authenticator grants ac[...]

  • Page 64

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 64 March 2012 Section 4 - Managing the Access Point Creating a Management Access Control List (ACL) Y ou can create an access control list (ACL) that lists up to ve IPv4 hosts and ve IPv6 hosts that are authorized to access the AP management inte[...]

  • Page 65

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 65 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services This section describes how to congure services on the UAP and contains the following subsections: •) “Web Server Settings” on page 65 ?[...]

  • Page 66

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 66 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Field Description Generate HTTP SSL Certicate Select this option to generate a new SSL certicate for the secure Web server . This should be done once the access point has an IP address [...]

  • Page 67

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 67 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Figure 34 - SNMP Conguration Field Description SNMP Enabled/ Disabled Y ou can specify the SNMP administrative mode on your network. By default SNMP is enabled. T o enable SNMP , click Ena[...]

  • Page 68

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 68 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Field Description Hostname, address or subnet of Network Management System Specify the IPv4 DNS hostname or subnet of the machines that can execute get and set requests to the managed devices[...]

  • Page 69

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 69 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Field Description SSH Status Choose to either enable or disable SSH access to the AP CLI: •) T o permit remote access to the AP by using SSH, click Enabled . •) T o prevent remote access [...]

  • Page 70

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 70 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Figure 37 - Modify QoS Queue Parameters Field Description EDCA T emplate Possible options are: Default , Optimized for V oice, and Custom . AP EDCA Parameters Queue Queues are dened for di[...]

  • Page 71

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 71 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Field Description Max. Burst Length The Max. Burst Length is an AP EDCA parameter and only applies to trafc owing from the AP to the client station. This value species (in millisecon[...]

  • Page 72

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 72 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Note: After you congure the QoS settings, you must click Apply to apply the changes and to save the settings. Changing some settings might cause the AP to stop and restart system processes[...]

  • Page 73

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 73 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services Field Description Non Urgent Severity Congures the severity level for log messages that are considered to be non-urgent. Messages in this category are collected and sent in a digest form a[...]

  • Page 74

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 74 March 2012 Section 5 - Conguring Access Point Services T o set the system time either manually or by specifying the address of the NTP server for the AP to use, click the Services > Time Settings (NTP) tab and update the elds as described i[...]

  • Page 75

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 75 March 2012 Section 6 - Conguring SNMPv3 Section 6 - Conguring SNMPv3 This section describes how to congure the SNMPv3 settings on the UAP and contains the following subsections: •) “Conguring SNMPv3 Views” on page 75 •) “Con[...]

  • Page 76

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 76 March 2012 Section 6 - Conguring SNMPv3 Note: After you congure the SNMPv3 Views settings, you must click Apply to apply the changes and to save the settings. Conguring SNMPv3 Groups SNMPv3 groups allow you to combine users into groups of d[...]

  • Page 77

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 77 March 2012 Section 6 - Conguring SNMPv3 Field Description Read Views Select the read access to management objects (MIBs) for the group: •) view-all — The group is allowed to view and read all MIBs. •) view-none — The group cannot view or [...]

  • Page 78

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 78 March 2012 Section 6 - Conguring SNMPv3 Note: After you congure the SNMPv3 Users settings, you must click Apply to apply the changes and to save the settings. Conguring SNMPv3 T argets SNMPv3 T argets send “inform” messages to the SNMP [...]

  • Page 79

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 79 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point This section describes how to maintain the UAP . From the UAP Administrator UI, you can perform the following maintenance tasks: •) “Saving the Current [...]

  • Page 80

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 80 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point Figure 46 - Conrmation Prompt 3.) T o proceed with the download, select OK . A dialog box opens allowing you to view or save the le. 4.) Select the Save File option and select OK . 5.) Use th[...]

  • Page 81

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 81 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point 2.) Use the Browse button to select the le to restore. 3.) Click the Restore button. A File Upload or Choose File dialog box displays. 4.) Navigate to the directory that contains the le, then[...]

  • Page 82

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 82 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point Figure 50 - Manage Firmware (TFTP) 2.) Enter a name (1 to 63 characters) for the image le in the Image Filename eld, including the path to the directory that contains the image to upload. For[...]

  • Page 83

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 83 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point 5.) T o verify that the rmware upgrade completed successfully , check the rmware version shown on the Upgrade page (or the Basic Settings page). If the upgrade was successful, the updated ver[...]

  • Page 84

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 84 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point Figure 53 - Packet Capture Status The following table describes information the packet capture status elds display . Field Description Current Capture Status Shows whether packet capture is runn[...]

  • Page 85

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 85 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point Upon activation, the packet capture proceeds until one of the following occurs: •) The capture time reaches congured duration. •) The capture le reaches its maximum size. •) The adminis[...]

  • Page 86

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 86 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point T o capture packets on the Ethernet interface of the AP and V AP0 on radio 1 using IP port 58000, start two Wireshark sessions and specify the following interfaces: rpcap://192.168.1.10:58000/eth0 [...]

  • Page 87

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 87 March 2012 Section 7 - Maintaining the Access Point Field Description Remote Capture Port Specify the remote port to use as the destination for packet captures. (range 1 to 65530). T able 50 - Remote Packet Capture Packet Capture File Download Packe[...]

  • Page 88

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 88 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) This section describes how to congure QoS settings that affect trafc from the wireless clients to the AP . By using th[...]

  • Page 89

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 89 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description Client QoS Mode Enable or disable QoS operation on the V AP selected in the V AP menu. QoS must be enabled globally (from the Client QoS Global Admin Mode eld) [...]

  • Page 90

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 90 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) MAC ACLs MAC ACLs are Layer 2 ACLs. Y ou can congure the rules to inspect elds of a frame such as the source or destination MAC address, the VLAN ID, or the Class of Service 8[...]

  • Page 91

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 91 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description ACL T ype Select the type of ACL to congure: •) IPv4 •) IPv6 •) MAC IPv4 and IPv6 ACLs control access to network resources based on Layer 3 and Layer 4 cr[...]

  • Page 92

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 92 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description Source Port Select this eld to include a source port in the match condition for the rule. The source port is identied in the datagram header . Once you selec[...]

  • Page 93

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 93 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description IP Precedence Select this option and enter a value to use the packet’s IP Precedence value in the IP header as match criteria. Y ou can select only one service t[...]

  • Page 94

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 94 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description Source Port Select this option to include a source port in the match condition for the rule. The source port is identied in the datagram header . Once you selec[...]

  • Page 95

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 95 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description EtherT ype Select the EtherT ype eld to compare the match criteria against the value in the header of an Ethernet frame. Select an EtherT ype keyword or enter a[...]

  • Page 96

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 96 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Dening DiffServ T o use DiffServ for Client QoS, use the Class Map and Policy Map pages to dene the following categories and their criteria: •) Class: create classes and de?[...]

  • Page 97

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 97 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description Class Map Name Select name of the class to congure. Use the elds in the Match Criteria Conguration area to match packets to a class. Select the check box [...]

  • Page 98

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 98 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description IP DSCP T o use IP DSCP as a match criteria, select the check box and select a DSCP value keyword or enter a DSCP . Select from List Select from a list of DSCP typ[...]

  • Page 99

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 99 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description EtherT ype Select the EtherT ype eld to compare the match criteria against the value in the header of an Ethernet frame. Select an EtherT ype keyword or enter a[...]

  • Page 100

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 100 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Creating a DiffServ Policy Map Use the Policy Map page to create DiffServ policies and to associate a collection of classes with one or more policy statements. The UAP supports up [...]

  • Page 101

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 101 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description Drop Select Drop to specify that all packets for the associated trafc stream are to be dropped if the class map criteria is met. Mark Class of Service Select t[...]

  • Page 102

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 102 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) Field Description ACL T ype Up Shows the type of ACL that is applied to trafc in the inbound (client-to-AP) direction, which can be one of the following: •) IPv4: The ACL exam[...]

  • Page 103

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 103 March 2012 Section 8 - Conguring Client Quality of Service (QoS) RADIUS Attribute ID Description T ype/Range V endor-Specic (26), L VL7-Wireless-Client- ACL-Up 6132,121 Access list identier to be applied to 802.1X authenticated wireless cl[...]

  • Page 104

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 104 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs The UAP supports AP clusters. A cluster provides a single point of administration and lets you view , deploy , congure, and secure the wireless network as a singl[...]

  • Page 105

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 105 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs Figure 64 - Manage Access Points In The Cluster (Active) If clustering is currently disabled on the AP , the Start Clustering button is visible. If clustering is enabled, the Stop Clustering button is [...]

  • Page 106

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 106 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs Removing an Access Point from the Cluster T o remove an access point from the cluster , do the following. 1.) Go to the Administration Web pages for the clustered access point. The Administration Web p[...]

  • Page 107

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 107 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs A session in this context is the period of time in which a user on a client device (station) with a unique MAC address maintains a connection with the wireless network. The session begins when the clie[...]

  • Page 108

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 108 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs Conguring and V iewing Channel Management Settings When Channel Management is enabled, the UAP automatically assigns radio channels used by clustered access points. The automatic channel assignment [...]

  • Page 109

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 109 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs V iewing Current Channel Assignments and Setting Locks The Current Channel Assignments section shows a list of all access points in the cluster by IP Address. The display shows the band on which each A[...]

  • Page 110

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 10 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs Field Description Change channels if interference is reduced by at least Specify the minimum percentage of interference reduction a proposed plan must achieve in order to be applied. The default is 75[...]

  • Page 111

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 1 1 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs Figure 67 - View Neighboring Access Points The following table describes details about the Wireless Neighborhood information. Field Description Display neighboring APs Click one of the following radi[...]

  • Page 112

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 12 March 2012 Section 9 - Clustering Multiple APs V iewing Details for a Cluster Member T o view details on a cluster member AP , click on the IP address of a cluster member at the top of the page. The following gure shows the Neighbor Details of [...]

  • Page 113

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 13 March 2012 Appendix A - Default AP Settings Appendix A - Default AP Settings When you rst power on a UAP , it has the default settings shown in the following table. Feature Default System Information User Name admin Password admin Ethernet Inte[...]

  • Page 114

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 14 March 2012 Appendix A - Default AP Settings Feature Default VLAN ID 1 Network Name (SSID) dlink1 through dlink16 Broadcast SSID Allow Security Mode None (plain text) MAC Authentication T ype None RADIUS IP Address 10.90.90.1 RADIUS Key secret RADI[...]

  • Page 115

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 15 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples Appendix B - Conguration Examples This appendix contains examples of how to congure selected features available on the UAP . Each example contains procedures on how to congure the feature by[...]

  • Page 116

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 16 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples set vap vap1 vlan-id 2 Note: The previous command sets the VLAN ID to 2 for V AP 1 on both radios. T o set the VLAN ID for V AP 1 on radio one only , use the following command: set vap 1 with radio w[...]

  • Page 117

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 17 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples Radio Conguration from the W eb Interface 1.) Log onto the AP and navigate to the Manage > Radio page. Figure 70 - Radio Conguration from the Web Interface 2.) Make sure that the Status is O[...]

  • Page 118

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 18 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples Radio Conguration Using SNMP 1.) Load the DLINK-WLAN-ACCESS-POINT -X600-MIB module. 2.) From the MIB tree, navigate to the objects in the apRadio table (apRadioBss > apRadioT able). 3.) Use the[...]

  • Page 119

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 1 19 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples WDS Conguration from the CLI 1.) Connect to the MyAP1 by using T elnet, SSH, or a serial connection. 2.) Congure the remote MAC address for MyAP2. set interface wlan0wds0 status up remote-mac 0[...]

  • Page 120

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 120 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples 5.) Click Start Clustering to enable the clustering feature. After you refresh the page, other APs that are on the same bridged segment, have radios in the same operating mode, are enabled for cluster[...]

  • Page 121

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 121 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples Conguring Client QoS This example shows how to enable client QoS, congure an ACL and a DiffServ policy on the AP , and to apply the ACL and the Policy to trafc transmitted from clients associ[...]

  • Page 122

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 122 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples •) Wild Card Mask : 0.0.0.255 •) Source Port : Select the option •) Select From List (Source Port) : www 7.) Click Apply to save the rule. Figure 76 - Conguring QoS by Using the Web Interface[...]

  • Page 123

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 123 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples 1.) Log onto the AP and navigate to the Client QoS > Class Map page. Figure 78 - Conguring QoS by Using the Web Interface (Class Map Name) 2.) Enter class_voip in the Class Map Name eld and c[...]

  • Page 124

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 124 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples Figure 81 - Congure Client QoS DiffServ Policy Map Settings (Rule) 10.) For the class_voip Class Map , select the Mark IP Dscp option, and then select ef from the Select From List menu. 1 1.) Traf?[...]

  • Page 125

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 125 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples 4.) Add another rule to acl1 that allows all trafc from the host with an IP address of 192.168.1.23. add rule acl-name acl2 acl-type ipv4 action permit protocol ip src-ip 192.168.1.23 src-ip- mask [...]

  • Page 126

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 126 March 2012 Appendix B - Conguration Examples •) Use 1.3.6.1.4.1.171.10.128.1.1.26.10.3.1.16.1.4.97.99.108.49.2 to set apQosAclRuleCommit to a value of 1 (true), which saves the rule. 6.) Use the apQosGlobalMode object to set the status to up ([...]

  • Page 127

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 127 March 2012 Appendix C - Statements Appendix C - Statements Federal Communication Commission Interference Statement This device complies with Part 15 of the FCC Rules. Operation is subject to the following two conditions: (1) This device may not cau[...]

  • Page 128

    Unied Access Point Administrator ’s Guide Unied Access Point Administrator’s Guide Page 128 March 2012 Appendix C - Statements NCC Statement: 經型式認證合格之低功率射頻電機,非經許可,公司、商號或使用者均不得擅自變更頻率、加大功率或變更原設計之特 性及功能。 低功率射頻電機之?[...]